On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 10:17, Owain Sutton wrote:
> Extreme newbie here......
> 
> I installed Mandrake 10 onto spare space on my main hard drive, which 
> has XP in the first partition.  Everything went fine on the Linux side - 
> but choosing Windows from the boot options caused a freeze, with a 
> flashing cursor on black screen.  The XP recovery console couldn't cope 
> with the Linux partitions being in the FAT, so I ended up with a 
> complete repartition, reformat and reinstall of XP.  Not wanting to go 
> through that twice, is there anything I should be doing with Mandrake 
> other than following the default setup?

EZiest way - DELETE XP.

stephen kuhn - owner
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