On 12/19/2014 06:14 AM, jdd wrote:
Le 19/12/2014 12:05, Sandy Widianto a écrit :
Long time ago when I used Win XP dualboot with openSUSE (always got Invalid partition table when reinstall Win XP again) this issue always happened to me with openSUSE but not Win XP with other Linux distro I think I should reformat again entire hard drive to fix it just like years ago
if *only* the partition table is gone, it's most of the time possible to recover with minimum problems, but if you have no important data there, better going fresh
jdd
Before you reformat the drive: Windows wants to live on a FAT32 or NTFS file system. I suggest you get a copy of GParted on a live CD (download it and burn one using the "burn iso" routine) and setup the first partition on the disk (/dev/sda) as FAT32. (I'm assuming that your Linux system starts at /dev/sda5, which is the normal setup.) Then install XP. It will overwrite your boot sector with its own code, so you then need to put in a live Linux CD/DVD and follow the directions to rewrite the MBR for your dual boot system. This ought to work. --doug -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org