Re: fdisk error

Johs32 enlightened us with:
I have very little experience with this. Do you mean that I just
delete all partitions (I can do this from the winXP CD-ROM).

You can use cfdisk for this too.

1) Then I boot from a Ubuntu live CD and use cfdisk.

2) Make a primary NTFS disk for winxp.

I think you mean a primary partition, not a disk.

3) Make a secondary disk containing some swap space and an ext3
partition.

I think you mean logical partition, not secondary disk.

4) Install winXP on the primary disk.
5) Install Ubuntu on the secondary disk.

Yup.

You are sure this could not be caused by a hardware error and I
should find some error checking software instead?

You could run your disk through 'badblocks', but I've never seen a
hardware error influence partition boundaries in this way.

Sybren
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