On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 08:20, et wrote:
> I KNOW that there are 3rd party utilities to allow win2k/xp to use EXT2
> filesystems, but I would not trust them as much as I trust linus on any
> filesystem, and sure would HATE to loose important data just cause I wanted
> to try stuff out....
> that said NTFS file systems can sit anywhere on the disk, as long as a valid
> MS/WIN filesystem is on the first logical partiton of the first IDE channel
> hard drive master. if you format the disk for linux only, and go to install
> win2k later, you will have problems, unless you left at least 10 megs as a
> dos partion in the begining.
I going to snip part of Civileme post on January 27:
"Now this is where Windows has been programmed to fail. As soon as it
sees a non-windows type in the extensions, it stops traversing the
chain, and will miss any windows partitions logically beyond that.
Windows XP home edition also messes with this table in unpredictable
ways, often trying to make the LAST extended partition (if not a Windows
type) into a primary, so that it is COMPLETELY UNSAFE to install XP
after linux. It is possible to recover the problem once you can analyze
it with the rescue CD, but definitely neither for the faint of heart or
the newbie.
So prior to XP, windows misses any partitions that numerically follow
linux partitons, and beginning with XP it sabotages the partition table
to make linux unbootable,"
I just took for granted what he said.
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