OFF-TOPIC: Fedora 7 already installed, can't install XP on empty partition

André Costa blueser at gmail.com
Fri Aug 10 22:53:44 UTC 2007


Hi Tom,

On 8/10/07, Tom Horsley <tom.horsley at att.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 19:03:16 -0300
> "André Costa" <blueser at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > If that's really the case, what should I do? Reboot from Fedora
> > installation CD into rescue mode, run fdisk and remove all partitions?
>
> That's what I did when I reinstalled.

Thks, at least now I know a safe route =)

> > Something just occurred to me: what if I managed to boot from a Linux
> > rescue CD, ran gparted and marked both /dev/sda1 and /dev/sda2 as
> > "hidden" partitions? Could this work?
>
> You could try it I suppose, if it doesn't work, you could try the
> more drastic approach.

Guess I'll give it a try as soon as I can. Seems I'm screwed anyway,
wouldn't hurt to try it...

I realized I might not need gparted, fdisk might be able to do it. I
could try to set /dev/sda[12] to type 17 (hidden HPFS/NTFS) -- I just
tried it with the (empty) NTFS partition on /dev/sda3. Question:
changing a partition's type shouldn't alter any of its data, should
it?

Thks again,

Andre




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