OFF-TOPIC: Fedora 7 already installed, can't install XP on empty partition
André Costa
blueser at gmail.com
Sat Aug 11 23:40:46 UTC 2007
Hi Aaron,
On 8/11/07, Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> <snip>
> >
> > 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
> >
> No the XP partition should be type 7.
Sorry, I guess I didn't express myself right. I just tried setting
/dev/sda3 as type 17 to see if messing with it would be trivial. What
I was asking was if it would work with my "live" Linux partitions
(/dev/sda[12]). I'll try it tomorrow, after backing up what I've
installed so far.
Thks again,
Andre
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