Kubuntu hoses Windows on HP Pavilion A810n

Greg Booth bootgr at gmail.com
Tue Jul 31 23:33:07 UTC 2007


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




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