Loading Windows Xp

[Karl Larsen]

Avi Greenbury wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Mar 2008 18:02:33 -0600
> Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> Avi Greenbury wrote:
>>     
>>> On Sun, 16 Mar 2008 17:40:43 -0600
>>> Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>     That is what I did. I moved a swap partition and cleared an old 
>> partition of linux and that is /dev/hda1 the first partition. The 
>> problem is the fact that windows XP will not load into that first 
>> partition on the first hard drive. There is some problem. I have tried 
>> making it a number of windows file systems but so far XP just ignors it.
>>
>> So I think the right answer is, nope don't try to load windows on a hard 
>> drive with linux on it.
>>
>>     
>
> I've just read the archives.
>
> Have you tried any fs other than FAT16? 
> Which ones? 
> What are you using to create the partition(s)?
> What's the error message XP is throwing at you?
> What's your current partition layout?
>
>
> I tried FAT16 and FAT32 and the HNXXX I forget. 
>   
    I create the partitions with fdisk.

    The current layout follows.

Disk /dev/hda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0009c343

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1               1        1219     9791586    b  W95 FAT32
/dev/hda2            1220        1360     1132582+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda3            1361        1970     4899825   83  Linux
/dev/hda4            1971       19457   140464327+   5  Extended
/dev/hda5            1971        7071    40973751   83  Linux
/dev/hda6            7072        7085      112423+  83  Linux
/dev/hda7            7086        8961    15068938+  83  Linux
/dev/hda8            8962       10123     9333733+  83  Linux
/dev/hda9           10124       12556    19543041   83  Linux

    With this system when I reboot with the Windows XP cd in the reader 
it comes back reading the cd and in short order it prints one line 
saying "checking the file system" and then it does nothing on the 
screen. But I can see the hard drive is working. So I left it run 3 
hours and the hard drive was still busy and still nothing on the screen.

    So it is my call to forget the whole thing. Too Hard.

Karl



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