Re: [newbie] NTFS Partition slaughter

2004-06-22 Thread Ariestao1
On Tue, 22 Jun 2004 12:43 am, Lord Storm wrote: SNIP Storm, old china plate, Windows ALWAYS needs to be installed FIRST - no matter what - it's a Microsoft thing - it will rewrite your partition tables no matter what - and if you hose up your Windows installation after mucking around

Re: [newbie] NTFS Partition slaughter

2004-06-22 Thread Lord Storm
I think ill be doing the beta run with MDK 10.1 and all candidates I just hope they anounce it on Distrowatch. Have you tried using Partition Magic to repair the partition table? stephen kuhn - proprietor No since I dont think they make partition Magic for linux and I only have 1

Re: [newbie] NTFS Partition slaughter

2004-06-22 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 18:23, Lord Storm wrote: I think ill be doing the beta run with MDK 10.1 and all candidates I just hope they anounce it on Distrowatch. Have you tried using Partition Magic to repair the partition table? stephen kuhn - proprietor No since I dont think they

Re: [newbie] NTFS Partition slaughter

2004-06-21 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2004-06-21 at 21:39, Lord Storm wrote: Well I run the bellow system. I had windows 2k pro with NTFS and some how mandrake purged Win2k from Partitions and windows would not reinstall. Operating system error or something like that it was about 2 weeks ago. Not that I realy care now,

Re: [newbie] NTFS Partition slaughter

2004-06-21 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Monday 21 June 2004 08:49 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: For whatever reason, the MS family of OS's refuses to be on anything - or rather, boot from anything except for HDA1 (or the entire HDA for that matter); by common practise, Windows is install first, then everything else after that. Can't

Re: [newbie] NTFS Partition slaughter

2004-06-21 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2004-06-21 at 22:58, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Monday 21 June 2004 08:49 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: For whatever reason, the MS family of OS's refuses to be on anything - or rather, boot from anything except for HDA1 (or the entire HDA for that matter); by common practise, Windows is

Re: [newbie] NTFS Partition slaughter

2004-06-21 Thread Lord Storm
SNIP Storm, old china plate, Windows ALWAYS needs to be installed FIRST - no matter what - it's a Microsoft thing - it will rewrite your partition tables no matter what - and if you hose up your Windows installation after mucking around with GNU/linux, well, you're going to have to blast it

Re: [newbie] NTFS Partition slaughter

2004-06-21 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Monday 21 June 2004 09:42 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: snip Ok, so ya pinned me to a dead fish on that - but still, UNLESS YOU'RE AN EXPERT, you're going to hose up the installation...and if you're dependent on particular partion numberings, installing Windows AFTER linux is going to be a

Re: [newbie] NTFS Partition slaughter

2004-06-21 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 00:43, Lord Storm wrote: SNIP Storm, old china plate, Windows ALWAYS needs to be installed FIRST - no matter what - it's a Microsoft thing - it will rewrite your partition tables no matter what - and if you hose up your Windows installation after mucking around with

Re: [newbie] NTFS Partition slaughter

2004-06-21 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 04:43, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Monday 21 June 2004 09:42 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: snip Ok, so ya pinned me to a dead fish on that - but still, UNLESS YOU'RE AN EXPERT, you're going to hose up the installation...and if you're dependent on particular partion