On 10/09/2007 05:33 AM, Robert Lewis wrote:
On 10/8/07, Chris Worley
wrote: On 10/8/07, Robert Lewis
wrote: Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 5105 41005881 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda2 12652 14462 14546857+ 1c Hidden W95 FAT32 (LBA) /dev/sda3 14463 14593 1052257+ d7 Unknown /dev/sda4 5106 12651 60613245 f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/sda5 5106 5367 2104483+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda6 5368 7978 20972826 83 Linux /dev/sda7 7979 12651 37535841 83 Linux
... and you're saying none of those partitions are the NT partition you're looking for?
Does "cat /proc/partitions" show any other devices that partition might be on?
This laptop came with two paritions related to XP. sda1 is NTFS as you can see.
That is XP. I believe you have XP media center.
sda2 I think is some weird special partition that has a mini os on it so that one can play a DVD without actually booting XP and utilizes the remote control that came with the machine.
That is the media center boot option, or boot button. It boots a media center to watch movies. sda3 is the data portion used by media center. It is a raw disk.
I think sda4 has the actual XP on it.
That is an extended partition, which contain the logical drives that has your linux on them. So sda1 IS your XP partition. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.2 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org