Re: Creating linux and windows partions in the same disk

On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 05:43:57 -0500
Bill Marcum <marcumbill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 17:51:22 -0200, Rafael Almeida
<rafaelc@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Hello.

I was having trouble installing windows on my computer and then I did
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda count=1 bs=512
It deleted my partition table and the windows instalation
started without any problems. But after editing my partition table with
cfdisk, the instalation of windows doesn't even start (it locks on a
black screen after some message about trying to identify my computer).

Why did you run cfdisk after installing windows? What did you change in
the partition table?

I think my post was somewhat misleading, I'm sorry about that :(. I
didn't actually go all the way through with the windows instalation,
because my partition table was gone (it was zeroed by the dd command)
and I didn't want windows to screw up the data I had on my computer. In
fact, I only went to the windows fdisk, and then I quitted without
changing anything.

After qutting the installer I recreated the partition table I
originally had using cfdisk. And, after booting, the installer froze
the same way as before.

So what I happened was this:

1. I had linux installed, and my partition table looked like this:

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 194 97744+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 195 128123 64476216 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 195 2178 999904+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda6 2179 89371 43945240+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda7 89372 128123 19530976+ 83 Linux

2. I then ran
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda count=1 bs=512
it deleted my partition table and the windows installer started up fine.

3. I quit the windows installation.

4. I used cfdisk to recreate my former partition table.

5. Windows installer locked up at the same point as before.

I've recently deleted all the logical partitions using cfdisk. That made
the windows instaler to start just fine. So it seems to me that the
windows xp installer has some kind of problem with extended linux
partition. I'm trying to figure out if there's a way around this,
whitout losing all my linux partitions, of course.
.

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