Summary: I think I have a bad partiton table. I have Windows XP ( NTFS ) and SuSe 9.1 (ReiserFS) installed on the same hardrive. Both OS are running fine. Part...
Summary: After an upgrade from Win98 to XPpro the partition table of my HD went crazy. All windows partitions where ok but not the same for Linux and swap part...
Summary: I need help with my partition table. This is my drama... My partitions were like this: A 11GB for the WinXP Pro (fat32), a 100GB for my data (fat32) ...
Summary: Hello I have tried a few times to install PCLOS(Linux) on a second HDD. As I could not get the booting working properly I tried a few times and differ...
Summary: I am trying to dual boot windows xp and red hat 7.2 on my comp with windows on the first hdd and linux taking up about half of the second hdd, but whe...
Summary: somehow my partition table had become corrupt. Diskdrake won't start because of it, and neither will CFDISK. CFDISK says thet primary partition exten...
Summary: I just purchased and setup a machine w/ the following: Athlon TBird 900Mhz Abit KT7-RAID motherboard (has ATA/100 support using the HotRob 100 Pro chi...
Summary: let me start by saying I'm a total newbie, to get that out of the way. without any further ado, let me begin. I tend to go on, so I'll try and have a ...
Summary: Hello everyone! In a DELL machine running SUSE10 I wanted to read-only my files in an older hard-disk with WIN95 installed. I installed the old drive ...
Summary: Hi, I am trying to install Linux 7.1 (Red Hat) on my computer (Pentium 150 mghz) with a 6 GIG Hard Drive. The installation aborted since I've got a me...
Summary: Iam trying to install redhat 6.2 on a new pc, 10 gb harddisk, I figured out using "fips" that there is a "partition table inconsistancy" 2 partitions ...
Summary: I tried installing Red Hat 7.3 on my Windows XP box. My plan was to delete one of my unused Windows partions and use the newly created free space for...
Summary: I have Windows 98 and Caldera OpenLinux on a dual-boot system. I didn't want to pay for a commercial bootloader, and LILO didn't work because of my d...
Summary: I have three hard drives on my desktop. Last night, I was installing Yellowdog onto my first hard. The drive was formatted (correctly) before I st...
Summary: I tried installing Caldera OpenLinux on a 133MHz computer with Windows 95 pre-installed on it. When the installation was finished Linux was working. ...
Summary: I will try to lay out my problem in as clear and concise a manner as possible. I unintentionally wiped the first 512 bytes of my pri hdd with dd. I o...
Summary: Hi 3Dave, On mounting /dev/hda7; root@1[knoppix]# mount -t ext3 /dev/hda7 /mnt/hda7 mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda7, ...
Summary: As I said, I am not familiar with cfdisk. Fdisk is interactive, step-by-step. The following cfdisk/fdisk from my hdc might give you a better feel for...
Summary: FYI I don't think DOS fdisk can but GNU/Linux (c)fdisk can change partition types too. For an even more advanced (and free!) partition tool have a loo...
Summary: Have you ever sat at your laptop at 3am, looked at a mysterious low level boot loader prompt and think: "Oh no, did I just fsck up (in a bad way) my e...
Summary: This will do you no good but here it is. It makes a drive look to the bios like a zip drive. The thinking is that a zip drive may be more bootable tha...
Summary: The mistake was to use disk-druid. Use Fdisk at this step and you are in control. The partition table can hold only 4 slots, that can be all primary p...
Summary: Here's the problem. I deleted two FAT32 partitions using Diskdrake. As I expected, Diskdrake renamed /dev/hda7, /dev/hda8, /dev/hda9 and /dev/hda10 t...
Summary: I am trying to dual boot WinME and Red Hat 7.2 I am currently running an AMD Athlon 1.4Ghz with 256Mb RAM I have two Hard Drives: Western Digital 30G ...
Summary: i have intsalled Linux Mandrake 7.2 on my harddrive, and had the correct partitioning in place. then, i added windows 98se onto the same harddrive, an...