I recently installed SuSE 9.1 Professional onto my 80GB hard disk to dual boot with Windows XP. Since then Windows cannot boot, and the error message below is displayed after Windows is selected from Grub's startup menu: (hd 0,0) Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x7 chainloader +1 I've read about problems with installing Linux on partitions > 8GB, and I followed the article below to try and fix it. I have also read other articles about this, but my question is not answered. http://portal.suse.com/sdb/de/2004/05/fhassel_windows_not_booting91.html I managed to copy the driver update to floppy and install it as directed, but the problem occurs when I press "Back", the CD starts 'Loading data into ramdisk ...' as if I were installing the OS from scratch. What I'm trying to do is finish the remaining tasks below to repair the broken partition table and thus resolve the problem. How can I do this without the installation process beginning? QUOTE After completing the driver update, press "Back". The following dialog for repairing the partition table displays your hard disk (usually /dev/hda) and the status of the partition table (broken). Select the hard disk and click "OK" in order to repair the partition table. After repairing the partition table, exit the menu with "Back". Press the key combination CTRL-ALT-DEL in order to reboot the computer and remove all media from the drives. Now you should be able to boot both Windows and Linux. QUOTE NB: I can see all the files stored on the Windows partition through Linux in My Computer. I also have the 5 CD distro. I hope someone can help? Thanks in advance.

Newer versions of GNU/Linux should have no problems installing on partitions larger than 8Gb. You problem is more likely to be your grub config. Post up your /boot/grub/grub.conf. You will want to use rootnoverify, make sure the entry for windoze looks something like: title XP rootnoverify (hd0,0) makeactive chainloader +1

# Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Mon Jul 19 22:34:27 2004 color white/blue black/light-gray default 0 timeout 8 gfxmenu (hd0,2)/boot/message ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux### title Linux kernel (hd0,2)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda3 vga=0x314 splash=silent desktop resume=/dev/hda2 showopts initrd (hd0,2)/boot/initrd ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: windows### title Windows root (hd0,0) chainloader +1 ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: floppy### title Floppy root (fd0) chainloader +1 ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: failsafe### title Failsafe kernel (hd0,2)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda3 showopts ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off vga=normal noresume nosmp noapic maxcpus=0 3 initrd (hd0,2)/boot/initrd

Try changing: ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: windows### title Windows root (hd0,0) chainloader +1 for ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: windows### title Windows rootnoverify (hd0,0) chainloader +1 NB: With grub all you usually need to do is modify the config file. With lilo you have to run the lilo command to write the changes to your boot record.