Stop Error w/Change in Partition Table

Alan Lue · *nix forums beginner Joined: 06 Feb 2005 Posts: 2

Hi,

This is a problem with Windows, but it came about from using fdisk on a
Linux system. I was wondering if you guys had any insight on the
matter.

I've put together a system with a 400GB hard drive and partitioned the
disk as follows:

Disk /dev/hda: 400.0 GB, 400088457216 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 48641 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 2048 16450528+ 7 HPFS/NTFS

I installed Windows 2000, and the system works fine. However, my
Windows system fails to boot after simply adding another partition:

/dev/hda4 3000 48641 366619365 83 Linux

As the system boots up, I get an error on a blue screen that reads:

***STOP 0x0000007B . . .
INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE

The system boots fine again after I remove hda4.

I want to be able to put other partitions on this disk. Anybody have
any idea what the issue is and whether there's a solution? Is the
problem the size of the hard disk?

Alan

Tauno Voipio · *nix forums Guru Joined: 14 Mar 2005 Posts: 678

Alan Lue wrote:

Alan Lue · *nix forums beginner Joined: 06 Feb 2005 Posts: 2

I tried moving the Linux partition into an extended partition instead,
but I continued to get the same error.

I couldn't locate the disk tool you're talking about, Tauno. Instead I
decided to try and reinstall Windows with a different partition setup
and noticed that the installer saw the disk (400GB) as having only
about 130GB. I found a page on LBA support from Microsoft's support
site:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/305098/EN-US/

and it provided the solution to my problem. I turned on 48-bit LBA
support for ATAPI disks, and Windows now boots without error.

Without 48-bit LBA support, Windows must have identified some kind of
error when it recognized that the disk had partitions beyond a certain
storage limit. According to both the Microsoft support article and
this Seagate technical paper:

http://www.seagate.com/support/kb/disc/tp/137gb.pdf

that limit is 137GB.

Thanks for your help!

Alan

Tauno Voipio · *nix forums Guru Joined: 14 Mar 2005 Posts: 678

Alan Lue wrote:

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