Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 23:25:53 -0500 From: "Anthony Oresteen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] U105 Back UP!
No, the XP partition was active. XP started to boot but hung on the "Welcome to XP" blue screen. For some reason XP did not like the DOS partion and would not complete it's boot. Once I removed the DOS partition with PM but leaving the space as unused, XP booted. I then use XP's disk manager to format the partion as FAT for DOS. Everything now works ok. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Tony Oresteen W1AJO Montverde, FL ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jose Tavares" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Libretto" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, March 11, 2006 1:09 PM Subject: Re: [LIB] U105 Back UP! Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 15:06:51 -0300 From: Jose Tavares <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] U105 Back UP! On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 13:51 -0800, Tony Oresteen wrote: > Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 16:30:54 -0500 > From: "Tony Oresteen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: U105 Back UP! > > I have gotten my U105 to boot XP without using the recovery DVD! Yay!. See my previous message on Express Media Player Software. > > I rebooted from the Win98 USB Flash drive and started Partition Magic 8.0 again. I deleted the 700mb DOS partition at the beginning of the hard disk. I left it as unused space. > > Rebooted from the hard drive and like magic WinXP booted just fine! First thing I did was make a back up of Express Media Player Software. > > Next stop was Disk Management. Sure enough, Disk Manager showed 700mb unused space at the beginning of the hard drive. I then created a partition in it and formatted it as FAT. Everything is fine now. > > Next week I'll try to figure out how to install DOS 7 onto the first partition and get a boot manager installed. > When you did that, pmagic returned the active partition to XP partition :) After that, it did not move the active to the FAT you created.. Tip: take a deep look at your future boot manager. Look if you will be able to run it from windows and DOS .. Make sure you'll not end with an unbootable system.. The knowledge I have is just about Lilo :) [] JA Tavares
