Dual boot (XP) best practice?

[Simon Ruiz]

You could probably boot to the Live CD, run "sudo gparted" from the commandline to bring up the partition editor and delete all the partitions. Or perhaps you could "dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/hda" to zero out the entire hard disk. *shrug* However, if Windows can't see a hard disk right now, I'm not sure what would make it do so, if you're certain the hard disk is plugged into the primary master position.
 
Best of luck!
 
Sim?n

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From: Michael Steigerwald [mailto:mikesteigerwald at gmail.com]
Sent: Mon 2/26/2007 12:52 PM
To: Simon Ruiz
Subject: Re: Dual boot (XP) best practice?


I'm pretty sure it must be. I can boot into edubuntu just fine.
 
Is there some way from edubuntu or the CD that I can somehow reformat or wipe the CD to make the Windows CD happy again?
 
TIA

 
On 2/26/07, Simon Ruiz <sruiz at mccsc.edu> wrote: 

	Are you sure the hard disk is plugged into the hda (hd0) position on the motherboard? That's all I can think of. 
	
	There is nothing I am aware of that any Linux distribution could do to keep the Windows Installation CD from thinking there isn't a hard disk.
	
	Best of luck!
	
	Sim?n
	
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	From: Michael Steigerwald [mailto:mikesteigerwald at gmail.com]
	Sent: Mon 2/26/2007 12:36 PM
	To: Simon Ruiz
	Subject: Re: Dual boot (XP) best practice?
	
	
	Actually, that's the conclusion I came to, but I can't even start over until I can figure out why the XP CD thinks there are no hard drives to install to. Is there something in edubuntu I can 'undo' or completely reformat the drive? 
	
	
	On 2/26/07, Simon Ruiz <sruiz at mccsc.edu> wrote:
	
	       Windows assumes it will be the only Operating System on the disk, and so if the partition you intend to install it to ISN'T the first partition on the first hard disk, this may be why it won't accept it as an valid install partition. I'm sure there is a way to coax it to work when installing it second, but there are quite a few extra little complications to deal with. 
	
	       I'd suggest starting over and installing Windows first. This is the only way I've ever done it, myself.
	
	       Best of luck!
	
	       Sim?n
	
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	       From: edubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com on behalf of Michael Steigerwald
	       Sent: Mon 2/26/2007 12:15 PM
	       To: edubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
	       Subject: Dual boot (XP) best practice?
	
	
	       I'm trying to set up my ThinkPad to boot into edubuntu or XP. I created an NTFS partition after I installed edubuntu, but got a new error when I tried to install Windows. 
	
	       I booted from the XP Pro CD, and it claims that it can find any hard drives to install to. I wouldn't be too disappointed if I had to reformat the whole disk, but I'm surprised that the install CD can't even see the NTFS partition. 
	
	       I know that edubuntu uses the GRUB loader, but I can get into the vanilla (ThinkPad) BIOS just fine. Did I corrupt something I need to use, e.g, Norton, for?
	
	       TIA for any ideas.
	
	
	
	
	
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