Mike, the advice and tips you've received from Craig are going to be far more useful and trustworthy than anything I might offer, but for whatever it may be worth, I'll pass along an idea that helped me get dual boot set up on a laptop that had winXP preinstalled: If you can get a copy of the Knoppix live CD, it has a program called 'qtparted' that allowed me to set up partitions when Mandriva 2006 was unable to do it for me. ---------- Original Message ----------- From: "mike enriquez" To: "Main PLUG discussion list" Sent: Mon, 2 Jan 2006 20:46:27 -0700 Subject: dual boot hell! > I live in dual boot hell? Sure I am a newbie but this has got to get > better with time so I think! I have xp pro running then I installed > Mandriva 2006 in a clean partition. Everything went well but when I > rebooted I got nothing but zeros and one across my monitor screen. I > don't know what I did wrong? To get my computer running I had to use > the xp recovery console and run "FXMBR" but I cannot get to my > Mandriva 2006 partition. Can anyone on the list give some insights > on what to do when you install a dual boot computer. Thanks Mike > Enriquez newbie ------- End of Original Message ------- --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss