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 ...
So I just used the rescue diskettes of PM, resized the current partition to leave some unpartitioned space for a fresh Windows XP install.. and went from there, migrating the files back over after I ...
Windows isn’t the only operating system you can run on your PC. Provided you have space on your local drive, you can use multiple partitions to run different Linux distros, create storage partitions, ...