Hi, I can't really help you with your issue, but a few things do strike me as strange:
John G. Heim wrote on 2011-09-19 17:11:38 -0500 [Re: Problem partitioning dual-boot]: > [...] > One thing that I've noticed... Sda1 ends on block 5100 and sba2 also begins > on 5100. That can't be right, can it? > [...] > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/sda1 * 1 5100 40960000 7 HPFS/NTFS For all I can figure out, your Windoze partition does not seem to end on a cylinder boundary (though in my experience, fdisk tends to print a warning if this is the case). I could imagine this could lead to a second partition being created starting on the same cylinder. Whether or not this would confuse Windoze 7, I couldn't begin to guess. Note, though, that this already seemed to be the case before the FAI installation: > ========== > Fdisk before FAI install > ========== > Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160000000000 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19452 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes > I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes > Disk identifier: 0xc19e4136 > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/sda1 * 1 5100 40960000 7 HPFS/NTFS > /dev/sda2 5100 19452 115287040 7 HPFS/NTFS At this point, you seem to have 2 NTFS partitions, of which your FAI installation deletes the second (but then, the manual Debian installation probably does, too). > My disk_config file: > disk_config disk1 preserve_always:1 bootable:1 > primary /windows 0- ntfs rw > logical swap 1500M swap rw > logical / 30G- ext3 rw createopts="-m 5" tuneopts="-c 0 -i > 0" Not problem-related, but out of curiosity: why do you use logical partitions instead of primary, even though you don't need more than 4 partitions in total? I hope someone else has more insight into what might be causing your problem. Regards, Holger P.S.: I was first wondering about the disk size being slightly larger than what the disk geometry indicates, but I've found this to be the case on any disk I can currently run 'fdisk' on. Does anyone know why this is so?