Re: Dual boot on Sata 300gig



On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 04:01:44 UTC, "Blattus Slafaly ? ¾ 0/00 :)"
<boobooililililil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

I can't seem to get this system up. I install Windows 2000 on the first
partition fine. Then install Opensuse 10.3 on the extended linux
partitions A swap of 2 gig, root 20 gig and home 178 gig. When I go to
the grub menu and select windows, windows crashes with a corrupt drive
blue screen. It worked on my other systems but this one does the same
thing 3 times now. Used yast to redo the boot loader and same problem.
Used 2000 disk to fix the MBR then the system boots windows immediately
but still crashes with corrupt disk. Somehow Opensuse is corrupting my
NTFS partition. Anybody else install dual boot on an SATA drive?

I was having similar trouble with a large SATA drive and found out
that you have to have the win2000 partition less than 132GB (or 130
something). This is because by default W2K large drives is not set in
the W2k registry when installing. After it is installed you can do
the registry thing and then increase the W2K partition if you need to.
Mine appeared to install correctly also but the went blue screen on
reboot. The problem with me was the above and NOT SuSE
Paul
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