On Saturday 13 December 2008 15:26:23 Joop Beris wrote:
Joop Beris wrote:
I found out the same thing about two weeks ago with an HP laptop I was installing for someone else. I used to run openSUSE on it. I removed all the Linux partitions on it with the Gparted LiveCD and created a single NTFS partition of 12 GB. I figured I'd use the Wintendo partitioner to partition the rest of the drive. I even set the new parition to active, but no dice.
On Saturday 13 December 2008, Hans Krueger wrote:
it's a windows thing it wants it on the first drive and the first partition period
See the part of my original post? I explained I removed all the Linux partitions and created a single, in other words first (and only) NTFS partition where I wanted to install Wintendo. Yet the Wintendo installer failed to recognize the partition. It even failed to recognize there was unpartioned space on the disk. It saw the disk, but claimed there was no room for it to copy files. Obviously it was wrong, since the disk was empty, it just failed to recognize the layout.
I tried to set the disk (which was SATA) to IDE emulation using the system BIOS, but this made no difference. It should not have either, since it was a disk of XP with SP3 embedded into it. ...
If it is not first partition created with Linux, then it is content of the MBR, or boot sector ;-) You can check this: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314458 -- Rajko. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org