Re: sarge install: dual-boot problem
Hi,
If your partition table is messed up, you strongly recommend you to try
"testdisk"
http://www.cgsecurity.org/testdisk.html
It's free and does "miracles" with your partition table. I've used it
myseflt with success a few times.
Joao
On Seg, 2004-07-05 at 01:36, Adam Lydick wrote:
> I've run into similar problems before. I don't recall how I finally
> bailed myself out, but:
>
> That partition tables looks a bit sketchy -- you'll notice that you have
> some overlapping paritions and that you have more than 4 primary
> partitions. I don't think windows is going to behave in a sane manner
> under those (out-of-spec) circumstances.
>
> I'd (carefully) try to fix up your partition table and write it to disk,
> then try to run "fixboot" and "fixmbr" from the XP recovery CD.
>
> You might dig through installation bug reports w/ my name attached to
> see if I put additional info into it.
>
> -- Adam
>
> On Sun, 2004-07-04 at 15:57, Jeroen Franken wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
> > ADDITIONAL INFO:
> >
> > fdisk -l output:
> > Disk /dev/hda: 61.4 GB, 61492838400 bytes
> > 16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 119150 cylinders
> > Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes
> >
> > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> > /dev/hda1 * 1 20815 10490728+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
> > /dev/hda2 95324 118157 11508336 83 Linux
> > /dev/hda3 20815 95323 37552315+ 17 Hidden HPFS/NTFS
> > /dev/hda4 118158 119150 500472 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
> > /dev/hda5 118158 119150 500440+ 82 Linux swap
> >
>
> <snip>
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