Partition Management

Reindl Harald h.reindl at thelounge.net
Fri Dec 2 02:31:25 UTC 2011



Am 02.12.2011 02:55, schrieb Mike Dwiggins:
> My wife's machine is a full up FC14 x86_64 and I now have the joy of 
> trying to put windows XP on due to constraints at her work.
> 
> I figured no problem, Install windows from scratch and constrain the 
> partition size and reinstall Fedora.  Windows setup craps out with an 
> error message saying the drive is corrupted.  The best I can figure is 
> that it can't for some reason overwrite Fedora.
> 
> Any clues on how to clear enough space for Windows or erase the disk so 
> I can make it a dual boot in the normal fashion?

why dual boot this days?

"windows XP on due to constraints at her work" sounds not
like playing 3d games and all other things are running fine
in a virtual machine, most time faster than a physical
winxp, without driver troubles and you can take the winxp
to the next computer as any other data-file

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