Re: Dual boot on Sata 300gig

On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 13:32:23 UTC, "Blattus Slafaly ? ¾ 0/00 :)"
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PaulRS wrote:
On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 04:01:44 UTC, "Blattus Slafaly ú ó 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
W2K wouldn't let me make a partition larger than 99 gig anyway. When I
reinstall W2k it trashes all the Linux partitions too after reformatting
the original 99gig. Well, screw W2k this is going to be an Opensuse
exclusive drive.


One further note I thought about in my installation.
(1) My W2K SP4 did not like SATA. I used the utility program of
the manufacturer (Western Digital) to prepare the partition for W2K.
Whatever was needed there was supplied by the WD partitioning for it's
own drive. This was where I could only make the W2K partition 130??
something GB.
(2) I also made sure that the W2K partition worked by itself BEFORE
putting SuSE on the other partitions. When I was finished, it all
worked on a WD 300GB SATA
Looks like you have other options if you want, but you might think
about these things. Good Luck!
Paul
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