partition size questions

[Alan Cox]

> creating the new partition, but before the copy, I tried to boot into
> Windows and got the BSOD.  I can rebuild, but what happened?  Once I
> rebuild Windows, I know that grub will no longer work.  How should I go

Did you leave the blank partition labelled as a windows partition or a
Linux one ?

> questions, would you mind clearing something up for me.  I thought HDx
> was for IDE drives while the SDx was for the SCSI drives.  I have this
> machine I am building where the drive is SATA but it is recognized as my
> SD0 drive. 

Historically we used hd[abcdef..] for IDE and sd[...] for SCSI. However
ATAPI is very close to SCSI, and SATA is very similar to SCSI, with SAS
making the distinction even more blurred. 

When the old style IDE drivers were converted to use the SATA layer it
was decided to simply treat the lot the same way.

Alan