Kubuntu hoses Windows on HP Pavilion A810n

Douglas Phillipson douglas at intermind.net
Wed Aug 1 01:01:28 UTC 2007


Greg Booth wrote:
> On Tuesday 31 July 2007 5:28:13 pm Douglas Phillipson wrote:
>> After installing 7.04 on this desktop in a dual boot configuration,
>> Windows (XP Home) no longer boots.  There appears to be a small recovery
>> partition on the disk.  I made /, swap and home paritions after
>> shrinking the original NTFS partition.  Kubuntu works fine but Windows
>> just won't boot.  I can see the windows xp logo for a fraction of a
>> second, then a blank screen. I've installed many dual boot systems and
>> never run into this problem before.  Any suggestions are appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Doug P
> 
> Is the windows partition a basic NTFS partition or is it the more advanced 
> dynamic volume ? If it's dynamic I think you're in trouble, it really doesn't 
> like sharing space.
> 
> Greg

I believe it is jut NTFS.

Doug P




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