Yes, Windows and linux will recognize PM partitions. The order of OS
installation is not important.
As an aside: Modern IDE hard disks work in (at least) two modes, native
(C/H/S) and LBA. LBA mode was "invented" to circumvent a cylinder
number limitation (the cylinder designation bit length limitation) in
Windows. Linux has generally been ahead of Windows in its ability to
deal with large disks. Thus Windows needed LBA but linux could use
C/H/S on larger disks. All partitions must start at the beginning of a
cylinder, but an LBA cylinder can contain many legitimate C/H/S
cylinders, hence the incompatibility. PM chooses an C/H/S start that is
also compatible and consistent with an LBA start.
Mike Pfleger wrote:
>
> Erik Wessman wrote:
> >
> > Mike:
> >
> > This problem seems to crop up when you use linux fdisk as it is not so
> > assiduous about complete LBA cylinders as it might be.
> >
> > I have found that Partition Magic (ver 5 or later) will do the job
> > properly - and Storm's installation seems to prefer partitions created
> > by PM (it is bundled with the commercial versions of Storm).
> >
> > Erik
>
> Hmmm.
>
> So the windoze installer will recognize the partitions, when established
> with PM, as the *proper* size? I've never used it, so I'm not sure of
> its capabilities. Or am I constrained to installing windoze first, then
> resizing? The reason I ask is that I will probably need to install
> windoze2000 for a job I'm looking at, and would like to be able to make
> use of the configured drive without having to start from scratch.
>
> Please excuse my ignorance of LBA cylinders et al.
>
> TIA,
> Mike
>
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