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Author: Nathan England
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Subject: XP/Linux dual boot

I would install XP in a fat32 partition. Don't use NTFS.
As far as I know, you can't modify the fat32 partition that XP is on, or it
will break it's crc consistency and it won't boot.

I don't know if that means the partition table in general or not.
You might try getting a copy of partition magic 7 and use that.
If you don't have it, I can loan you a copy of the rescue disks.

nathan


Am Dienstag 11 Juni 2002 01:50 vormittags schrieb Matt:
> So today I went out to Fry's and bought Windows XP, because I need Windows
> for a few things. I installed XP, and all went well. I prodded it for a few
> minutes, then restarted with my SuSE Linux 8.0 CD in. I just went with the
> default settings it gave me. It said it was going to delete the NTFS
> partition, but I'd heard Linux works well with Windows, so I assumed that
> the folks at SuSE knew what they were doing. Apparently I was wrong. Linux
> installed fine, but when I restarted the computer to see if all was OK, I
> found out that it wasn't. Windows shows up as an option in LILO, but it
> merely goes to a black screen with white text that says "Loading
> Windows..." What is it that I did wrong, and what should I do after I fdisk
> it all and start repeating the same process?
>
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