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Partitioning Windows XP is a lost art. Modern OSes hide sectors and logical volumes behind layers of abstraction. XP forces you to understand cylinders, heads, and sectors. If you are building a retro PC today, take your time, sketch your partition map on paper first, and always back up your data—because fdisk does not ask for confirmation twice. partition windows xp
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