On Saturday 13 December 2008 12:18:39 Sergey Mkrtchyan wrote:
On Saturday 13 December 2008 10:41:27 am Felix Miata wrote:
"Something like"? What exactly?
Well, after 4 hours of googling, I eventually was able to make it recognize the hard drive, (yes, it is SATA) I had to change in BIOS configuration for SATA from "AHCI" to "Compatibiliy", and it worked (and by worked I just mean it didn't give that " no disk" message again)
But now after windows copies all the files and goes for that 15 seconds reboot it starts all over again (copying files -> reboot), so it does not really boot from the hard drive. When I manually set from bios to boot from hard drive first, it gives me "Invalid partition table" message
How old is the motherboard, and what disk controller(s) does it use?
hmm... actually how do I figure that out? I bought is last year from Lenovo, so it shouldn't be that old.
Are you sure it's a SP2 CD? An original XP CD would have no SATA drivers.
Yeah I'm pretty sure it's SP2 (university provided copy)
Another problem is for PATA it would not see a partition located beyond 128G. The order of the partition entries you list above indicates the FAT at the end of disk, so if the disk is bigger than 120G, an original wouldn't see it.
That's right, the disk is about 200Gb, and yes fat32 is at the end of a disk. But is that true also with NTFS? because I also tried to do it with NTFS and it still didn't work. (Well except that now it recognizes the disk but keeps rebooting each time after copying the files)
Thanks a lot, I guess this was really not the right place to post it and my apologies for that. I though it was related to Gparted but maybe it's a windows problem.
It is a windows problem. Your partition is at the end of the disk, extended partition is first, which in Linux doesn't matter, but for OS that used to have whole hard disk at its disposal it can be a problem. The bootloader installation can be full of bugs that are never noticed for 2 reasons: 1) Windows only users seldom install their OS, and if some do, than installer is tested for the options where OS is damaged, disk is empty, upgrade from older system, 2) Dual boot Windows-Linux users usually just let Linux shrink partition, and seldom reinstall first one, but even if they do, this is kind of "repair" for installer, so it is tested option. Next problem can be that Linux partition is marked as bootable. With generic MBR code this can be problem if Windows didn't marked its partition as bootable. Try to install GRUB again and point windows entry to /dev/sda2, insert XP disk after boot menu appears, wait until DVD drive is ready, and then select to boot in Windows. If XP doesn't check what is boot medium this should work and second phase of installation should continue. Rajko. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org