On December 13, 2008 06:33:17 am Sergey Mkrtchyan wrote:
Hi List,
So I downloaded Gparted live cd, booted from it, then successfully shrinked one of my Linux partitions, and formatted it to fat32. It looks like this
/dev/sda1 extended boot, lba /dev/sda5 linux swap /dev/sda6 ext3 /dev/sda7 ext3 /dev/sda2 fat32
But when I insert windows xp sp2 cd and boot from it, it says something like "You have no hard drives attached... "
I also tried with NTFS, unallocated, but nothing seems to help. I did a lot of googling (these two days I'm stuck with it), tried different windows cd's. Tried ultimate boot cd...
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.
It's a thinkpad t61, running opensuse 11 with kde 3.5 (if that matters)
Sergey -- Sergey Mkrtchyan, Graduate Student @ Department of Physics & Astronomy, Faculty of Science, University of Waterloo
Sergey, I'm running exactly the same setup. I run openSuse 11.0 and dual boot with Win XP on a T61. This week, all of a sudden, both gparted and partition magic said my drives were not recognizable, both my Windows partition and my openSuse partitions. They still worked and I could boot both OSes, however. The partition managing programs could see the partitions on my usb drive just fine, but nothing on the main hd in the laptop. I just backed everyhing up to a usb drive, and fixed the hd in the laptop by reinstalling xp from the Lenovo repair disks. This created just an NTFS drive and one 5 GB partition where it stored everything for a future reinstall. Then I could use opensuse gparted to shrink my Windows drive to 25 GB, create a 149 GB extended partition and create /, /home, and swap partions in that. i haven't been able to identify what caused this to occur. I had recently installed KDE4 for evaluation, switching between 3.5 and 4.0. I had also added Amarok2 just before I noticed what happened to my partitions. For now, I suspect this is due to installing KDE4 on a machine that already had KDE3, but I'm not certain about it at all. GL, Bob -- bob@rsmits.ca -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org