[opensuse] windows cd not recognizing partitions made by gparted



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
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Department of Physics & Astronomy,
Faculty of Science, University of Waterloo
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