Sounds weird. In case it helps, my experience was XP on a laptop, installed Mandrake, mandrake re-sized the XP partion to 1/2 the disk, wouldn't go lower. Mandrake installed AOK. Perhaps MS have altered things with later versions to stop dual boot but I doubt it. Perhaps the disk files are at all ends of the XP partion preventing a resize. You used to have to run a windows re-jig of some sort to get the files re-organised then a re-partion should work more effectively. With windows file systems, all bets are off.
Someone else definately knows more about this than me. Windows is fading from memory somewhat. It's been a while. BTW your computer clock is wrong or you are posting from the future. If the latter, can you tell me who's going to win race no. 3 at Randwick today? ;-) HTH Stu On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 15:47, vladimir wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I just bought a new LG LS50-6 laptop and want to set it up as dual > boot winxp/redhat. I installed Partition Magic 8 on the hd and > thought that resizing the partition would be easy, so that i can > install RH. However, PM wouldn't allow the resizing or creating of any > partitions on the primary C:\ NTFS partition. As i understand, all > the install/rescue files, including WinXP installation is on some sort > of "invisible" partition, which doesn't show in the explorer and can > only be accessed to re-install WinXP. Partition magic doesn't > show/recognize it either. When attempting to install RH and error msg > appears : "Boot table on hda unreadable". The option i am given is to > delete data on existing partition, reformat and proceed with > installation, which is not what i would like to do. When using the > supplied rescue disk, options are pretty much the same. I'd rather > not do this, if there is another solution. Any suggestions would be > greatly appreciated. > > Thanks, > > Vlad > > ______________________________________________________________________ > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
