On Saturday 17 June 2006 11:13, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
Colin Carter wrote:
When I partitioned and then formatted the parts it failed me.
What failed? The install? Formatting? That doesn't sound right, but who knows what happened in your situation.
So I formatted the whole drive as a single partition, then partitioned, then formatted again.
If you created just one partition that left space for SuSE, say 50%, and just formatted that one with XP and installed it there, I would have thought it would have worked fine. If resizing the NTFS partition failed for whatever reason (and IIRC you did say you defragged the drive before you resized), then I would have thought that would have been all that would have been needed, but if there was a bug somehow where there was a difference between what the partition table said the partition boundaries were, and what the formatted sectors said, that might maybe produce some confusion. It has been my experience that MS disk tools are very limited, especially when it comes to anybody else's partitions/file systems, So am not allowing for the need to do as you said you needed to. In general, though, I would, if resizing failed and messed up the XP install, I would partition first what ever size I needed for XP, format and install there, then allow SuSE to handle the rest of the drive's space for its partitioning/formatting, installation. That has never failed me (though I have only used the resizer in 9.3, which worked great for me in the 2 times I needed it). At least you beat the odds and obstacles. Aren't you glad computer usage keeps getting easier and easier! :-)
-- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871
Thanks Joe. I agree with what you say above. And yes, the SuSe resizing appears to have been the problem, although, like you, I had no problem with 9.1 And so I did what you said above: "In general ..." I just hope I can remember it when XP causes the next crash. Yes Joe, I am glad that computing is getting easier: I tried Linux ten years ago and gave up, but now it runs rings around Windoze. Regards, Colin