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Resizing partition - un-bootable?? (Or is it?)

Asked by pr0m3th1us in Windows XP Operating System

Tags: xp, partition

I have 2 partitions on my hard drive. Both are NTFS. I originally had Win 98 on the first and Win XP Home on the second. But recently I clean installed Win XP Pro in the first (removing Win 98). So I now have Win XP Pro on C: and Win XP Home on D:
I am in the process of copying all the "My Documents" files etc. from XP Home to XP Pro, but I have run short of room on the hard drive.
The first partition is 6GB (XP Pro) and the second is 32GB (XP Home).
I went into Partition Magic to resize the first partition, but it warned me that if I go beyond the 1024 cylinder, that partition may become unbootable.

My question is:-

IF I go ahead and resize the partition beyond 1024 cylinders, what problems will that cause in terms of booting into either OS.
I believe that the bootloader is on the first partition. Is there a way to get around this so I can resize the partition to wherever I want it?

What I plan on doing (if I can get around this) is, once everything I need has been copied over to XP Pro, I will delete the second partion and resize the first to fill the whole hard drive so I only have just one partition.

I need some serious help on this as I don't want to mess things up completely.

BTW, I'm poor and can't afford to give this question many points, but my contribution to a good solution could be worth more than a few piddly points. But if I had 500 points I would give them to whoever helps me on this (even if this is something that is so simple a 2 year old could do it - I'm lazy as well as poor :) but that's what this site is for, eh?).

Thanks,

Mike
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