On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 13:26 +0100, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
On Friday 8 December 2006 01:13, James wrote:
That or many other methods never seem to work for me. XP is spread
out all over the disk and the recovery partition is very difficult to
deal with too.
Ah ok, that was not clear to me,
On Fri, 8 Dec 2006 00:13:30 + (UTC), James wrote:
That or many other methods never seem to work for me. XP is spread
out all over the disk and the recovery partition is very difficult to
deal with too.
You need to defrag the Windows partition (from Windows) before resizing
it.
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Neil
On Friday 08 December 2006 00:13, James wrote:
Etaoin Shrdlu shrdlu at unlimitedmail.org writes:
Once again, I'm installing several amd64 systems with dual boot XP.
I always have to nuke the XP, reformat, leave sda1 for XP and
continue on with the install. Since I am installing
On Fri, 8 Dec 2006 08:29:23 +, Mick wrote:
You'll need to defrag reboot a couple of times using the
Administrative Tools/Disk Manager for the job before you shrink the
WinXP partition.
Also, Windows puts something in the middle of the partition, so you can
only shrink it by just under
On Friday 8 December 2006 01:13, James wrote:
That or many other methods never seem to work for me. XP is spread
out all over the disk and the recovery partition is very difficult to
deal with too.
Ah ok, that was not clear to me, and also I did not know that you had a
recovery partition. In
On Thursday 7 December 2006 05:10, James wrote:
Once again, I'm installing several amd64 systems with dual boot XP.
I always have to nuke the XP, reformat, leave sda1 for XP and
continue on with the install. Since I am installing Gentoo first
Maybe I missed something, but why do you have
Etaoin Shrdlu shrdlu at unlimitedmail.org writes:
Once again, I'm installing several amd64 systems with dual boot XP.
I always have to nuke the XP, reformat, leave sda1 for XP and
continue on with the install. Since I am installing Gentoo first
Maybe I missed something, but why do you
James wireless at tampabay.rr.com writes:
Once again, I'm installing several amd64 systems with dual boot XP.
I always have to nuke the XP, reformat, leave sda1 for XP and continue
on with the install. Since I am installing Gentoo first (amd64 livedcd)
is there any things to watch out for,
On Thu, 2006-12-07 at 04:10 +, James wrote:
...
why can't you install xp first? (I only trust windows when formatting
ntfs btw :)
so long as xp installs into a partition smaller than the total disk
size, then install linux second, let it overwrite the mbr in the
process, and voila! dual
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