Windows install disc can't see my FC4 partitions
Jeff Vian
jvian10 at charter.net
Tue Nov 1 22:58:09 UTC 2005
On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 01:19 -0500, Ken Schutte wrote:
> I need to setup a dual boot system on my x40 Thinkpad laptop. I've done
> it without problems before, but this time I have FC4 installed first,
> and now want to add a Windows XP partition. On intial FC4 setup, I used
> disk druid and kept some open space, then later used qtparted in knoppix
> to create an NTFS partition. Currently fdisk -l shows:
>
> Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40007761920 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4864 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux
> /dev/hda2 14 3582 28667992+ 83 Linux
> /dev/hda3 3583 3647 522112+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
> /dev/hda4 3648 4864 9775552+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
>
> When I try to boot from a Windows XP disc to install Windows, it quickly
> flashes some text saying something like "please wait while checks your
> system...", then the screen is blank and nothing happens and I have to
> just reset. Should I be able to boot and install from a WinXP disc
> given that partition table?
>
> Sorry if this it a bit of a windows question, but all these partions
> were created in linux, so maybe somebody could help.
>
I wonder if the problem is hda4. Normally windows creates that as an
extended partition and it may not be able to use it for install/boot.
Usually there are logical drives in the extended partition that windows
uses so that could easily be an issue.
> Thanks!
> Ken
>
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