On Sun, 15 Jun 2008 14:58:52 -0400 (EDT) TARogue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a Compaq Presario SR1620NX running Windows XP. I used Acronis > Disk Director Suite 10.0 to repartition my harddrive and installed > Fedora Core 9. Once it was fully installed and configured I rebooted > back to the XP partition. I was immediately redirected to "System > Recovery" > > I ended having to boot back to Linux, mount the NTFS filesystem, backup > the entire partition and do a complete wipe & reinstall. Once that was > done, I "rescued" linux by reinstalling grub. With grub in place i can > get back to Linux (YAY!) but Windows is demanding a System Restore > again. > > The reason I'm blaming Compaq is because I've not had this problem on > ANY of my other XP/Fedora dual boot systems. Can anyone tell me how I > can get this to work? it certainly is not Compaq's fault. First, the Disk Director is a waste of $49. A Linux live CD, such as Knoppix, has the tools to properly resize a Windows NTFS partition. One of the things I do at installfests is to first make sure the NTFS is fully defragmented. The next thing I do is to resize it with QTParted. Then, before I do anything else, I boot into Windows to make sure it boots. It may require repair since it will think it has been shutdown improperly. Once you can boot Windows without a problem, then you can use your Linux distro, or parted to allocate your partitions. For years I used Partition Magic because it was the only one I trusted until GNU Parted (and QTParted) came up to speed. Also note on many Windows systems, including Dell and Compaq, there is a hidden recovery partition. Additionally, with new systems today, I would prefer virtualization over dual boot. If you are a heavy Windows user and want to try Linux, you can install something like VMWare or Virtualbox on Windows and run Linux as a guest. Or, you can completely blow Windows away and install VMWare or Virtualbox on Linux with Windows as the guest. This is my preferred way since you have the benefit of Linux' stability and better file system. in my case there are a few cases where I may need Windows and cannot use WINE. But, running Windows in a VM on a reasonably powerful system works decently. -- -- Jerry Feldman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846
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