If you intend to not use boot disks all the time then it is. Most BIOSes can't boot on a partition beyond the 1023rd cylender. What most people do is just make a small (~50 meg) /boot partition at the ...

IDE0 - 15gb NTFS (1 primary partition)<BR>IDE1 - 40gb Fat32 (1 35gb primary, 1 5gb logical partition)<BR><BR>I have WinXP Pro installed on IDE0 (NTFS) but some programs I like do not work. I ...

https://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid,74365/description.html (free) has been my go-to Linux boot disc since I first downloaded it several years ago. Not only ...

For some time now I have gotten a slow but steady volume of requests that I write about UEFI firmware and EFI boot relative to installing and maintaining Linux. As a result of a casual comment I made ...

Windows can and will crash — and after it does it may not boot normally. To be prepared for worst-case scenarios, learn how to create a bootable recovery partition on your system drive. From time to ...