Window$ & Edubuntu sharing the same sda

[Michael]

Hi, It sounds like windows isn't detecting the hard drive properly, ie only
sees it as a 130gb hard drive not the full 250gb. Therefore when you install
edubuntu and create a 150gb partition, it might be changing the partition
table on the hard drive and causing Windoze to crash.

If this is the case, you have 2 options :

Install a second hard drive as the primary master hard drive exclusivly for
Windows. I sugest a 80gig or 120gig drive as it looks like windows dosn't
like hard drives over 130 gigs on your particular motherboard. Install
windows on the new hard drive. Once windows is installed and runnung on the
new hard drive, install Edubuntu onto the 250gig hard drive.

The second option is to try get windows to recognise the 250gig hard drive
as a 250gig hard drive. To do this either try a BIOS update, get updated
motherboard drivers for the windows install or get an updated version of
windows xp.

Good Luck
  -----Original Message-----
  From: edubuntu-devel-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
[mailto:edubuntu-devel-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com]On Behalf Of Mariana Curado
Malta
  Sent: 30 July 2006 11:58 AM
  To: Edubuntu Mailing List
  Subject: Window$ & Edubuntu sharing the same sda


  Last week i sent you a messagem saying that I could not install Edubuntu.
It was a problem of the onboard Intel graphics card that i could overcome
switching from VGA to 800x600 resolution or higher.

  But another problem ocurred and I have been trying to solve it with no
success the whole week.

  I am installing UBUNTU (EDUbuntu) in a partition of a drive of 250G (sda2
/ and sda5 swap (2G)).

  In sda1 there is Window$ wich was installed first with success. To install
Window$ XP I did a partition of 100G (oddly the windows partition tool only
sees a disc of 130G)

  To install Edubuntu i did a parttion of 143 G to root and 2G to swap
(linux sees all the 250 G of the disk).

  Edubutu works perfectly soomthly and nicely (it is indeed a beautiful
environment) but when I try to boot from Window$ frm GRUB it gives me a
fatal error on that caractheristic blue screen "a la Window$" and doesn't
boot. I did the same procedure twice ( i.e. i installed the machine
completely from the zero - both OSystems - twice) and always the same
problem. I did a boot from the Window$ CD and did a repair of the MBR. But
it doesn't work. Window$ is destroyed in some way.

  But my question here is not about Window$ but Edubuntu, because the
problem is when i install it:

  Why does this happens? I have installed allready many debian machines
sharing disks and GRUB works perfectly and debian installation doesn't
destroy the other OS. When I boot this machine grub runs and I get the menu
with the right options. But when I choose Window$ i get the fatal error
saying that I should reboot the machine.

  I supose that edubutntu destroyes something on Window$ that doesn't have
anything to do with the MBR. It is a guess, i do not know.

  Anyone having (has) the same problem?

  Ideas? I really need that Window$, it is a requirement for the machine. If
I could choose...it would be a 100% Ubuntu/Edubuntu machine.

  Thank you, Mariana
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