On Sat, 2008-12-13 at 15:59 +0100, Joop Beris wrote:
On Saturday 13 December 2008, Sergey Mkrtchyan wrote:
Can you guys please help? I really need to get it working and if you need more information I'd be glad to find it out.
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.
Gparted understood the disk layout, but the Wintendo XP boot CD would not. I tried a different Windows boot CD, but no luck there either. So I booted from the openSUSE 11 CD, removed and recreated the NTFS partiion I had made with the openSUSE disk partitioner. Still no dice. I even reinstalled openSUSE on it to see if that would work and it worked like a charm.
I finally managed to repartition the drive with a bootable CD from Partition Magic I had lying around.
Which version of PM, I have 8.0 and it failed to see the SATA?
That saved my bacon, otherwise the disk would have been unusable...well, for anything other than Linux, which is not such a bad thing.
But I found it really strange that Wintendo failed to recognize the paritions, while Gparted, fdisk, cfdisk and the openSUSE disk partitioner all managed to identify the disk layout properly.
Makes me wonder what is at fault.
I suspect that this is just plain Windows being Windows the only game in town. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org