On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 1:19 PM, Freddie Exall
<freddie_signup@gmx.co.uk> wrote:
I have to chip in that I've never had any such problem with gparted or grub with a winxp partition of >8GB (currently 30GB), with grub on MBR. Osprober's always done its job and gparted has served me well for as long as I've needed it. I've had this setup for a while (well, over a year anyway;) now so maybe something broke? Maybe I'm just lucky.
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Same here. I use either 20 or 30 gb partitions for XP and have no problems with grub or dual-booting. Pretty sure it's a partition table thing and someone already mentioned using cfdisk, which can be done from booting to the Ubuntu Live CD before installing.
Mark