On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 12:41 -0700, Robert Lewis wrote:
I purchased a new HP dv5237cl with a sata 120-GB harddrive.
When installing SUSE 10.1 I got the following error message.
Failure occurred during following action: Shrinking partition /dev/sda1 to 45.1 GB System errpr code was -3027
A second attempt gave me the same result.
I suspect by reloading XP and dumping the HP_RECOVERY partition and/or the FAT32 partition which I believe is used for watching DVD's without actually booting the native XP that I might succeed. It would be a bit of pain to do this but I thought I would ask if anyone has had experience with this issue?
Just this weekend, but with a dv5000 and ide disk.
This is definitely something in the HP setup as I first tried with
Partition Magic 8 which could not convert NTFS to FAT32 or resize, it
stopped and reported that it had too many errors.
I just reinstalled XP with a smaller fat32 partition, I was surprised to
see that the CD appears to be a proper XP one and not a bastardised one
and after installing it and the supplementary HP one the machine didn't
ask for licence codes and any activation.
Best of luck.
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Dave Cotton