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 ...