[H-GEN] dual booting

[Sandra Milne]

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At 15:16 17/08/2002 +1000, you wrote:
>Could you provide some more details of your situation please.  (Was it a
>"recycled" partition that had ntfs/vfat prev, is your linux fs stuffed,
>what win2k sp/patches)


actually it did used to be a vfat partition on hdb. i used partition magic 
6 to repartition it, but deleted all that and re-did it in the linux 
installer. It never occurred to me that windows would have some sort of 
record of what partitions/drives it had previously and would forcefully go 
looking for the partition. However, i also had a vfat partition on hdb that 
windows refused to see.

I've now chucked the entire lot. I've moved windows to hdb which is now a 
single partition. I installed SP3 for simplicity (I wouldn't have to trawl 
through the updates list and reboot 15 times to get them all installed) I'm 
about to (read: when i stop being lazy) reinstall linux on hda, although I 
wonder if I should delete the partition, reboot with the empty space to get 
windows to rewrite whatever partition table it's keeping, and THEN install 
linux.

I'm curious as to whether this is a win2k only occurrence, or whether it 
occurs on machines with the same set of circumstances running winxp. (I'd 
rather not test that out however)

Sandra. (really apologetic about sending M$ stuff to the list, but this may 
help ppl in the long run)

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