mounting windows partition automatically on HP Pavilion laptop

Colin Law clanlaw at googlemail.com
Thu Jun 11 14:59:05 UTC 2009


2009/6/11 Karl F. Larsen <klarsen1 at gmail.com>:
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> Avraham Hanadari wrote:
>> I made three partitions on my HP Pavilion laptop, when I dumped Vista.
>> One is for XP (NTFS); one is for data (NTFS) and one is for Ubuntu 9.04.
>> All work fine and I have no trouble manually mounting the data partition
>> from U904.
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>        You NEVER want to mount the data partition that is made for Windows XP.
> It is a special partition that XP can use to re-load itself.
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I don't understand this comment. I have a dual boot setup with XP and
Ubuntu and mount the XP partition in Ubuntu so that I can access the
same data files and have encountered no problems.  Why should I not do
this?  Also what does 'It is a special partition that XP can use to
re-load itself' mean?  How can XP reload itself?

Colin




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