Re: Linux and Windows partitioners fail to see opposite partitions

On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 16:07:53 -0400 (EDT), Joe wrote: > In addition to Stephen's post, which covers most of what you need to > know in practical terms, there are plenty more gory details here: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_boot_record Good link, Joe. Thanks. wikipedia is one of my fav

Re: Linux and Windows partitioners fail to see opposite partitions

--- http://olafrv.googlepages.com -Original Message- From: Stephen Powell Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 14:31:32 To: Subject: Re: Linux and Windows partitioners fail to see opposite partitions On Wed, 24 Mar 2010

Re: Linux and Windows partitioners fail to see opposite partitions

Elmer E. Dow wrote: page says for the command W) with rewriting the mbr as you said. It's sinking in now that evidently the mbr and the partition table are the same thing. I need to do some reading to get a better understanding of the workings of a computer system in general and the boot pro

Re: Linux and Windows partitioners fail to see opposite partitions

On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 14:01:19 -0400 (EDT), Elmer E. Dow wrote: > > It's sinking in now that evidently the mbr and the partition table are the > same thing. The master boot record is cylinder 0, head 0, record 1, the very first record on the hard disk, which is outside of any partition. The maste

Re: Linux and Windows partitioners fail to see opposite partitions

Mark wrote: On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 9:13 AM, Elmer E. Dow > wrote: [snip] I found the answer here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=437814 fdisk /dev/hda m w Maybe you didn't see my email reply to Debian List when you first posted this

Re: Linux and Windows partitioners fail to see opposite partitions

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 9:13 AM, Elmer E. Dow wrote: [snip] > I found the answer here: > > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=437814 > > > fdisk /dev/hda > m > w > Maybe you didn't see my email reply to Debian List when you first posted this but this is exactly what I said to do, except I

Re: Linux and Windows partitioners fail to see opposite partitions

Joe wrote: Elmer E. Dow wrote: Recall that I used the DOS console to run fdisk /mbr to get XP to boot. Would installing grub on the MBR make Linux once again see the whole drive? It should at least allow correct booting. I wish I knew for sure. The XP Disc Manager and fdisk seem to agree

Re: Linux and Windows partitioners fail to see opposite partitions

Elmer E. Dow wrote: Recall that I used the DOS console to run fdisk /mbr to get XP to boot. Would installing grub on the MBR make Linux once again see the whole drive? It should at least allow correct booting. I wish I knew for sure. The XP Disc Manager and fdisk seem to agree on what's whe

Re: Re: Linux and Windows partitioners fail to see opposite partitions

Elmer E. Dow wrote: I have an IBM R40 laptop which had WinXP and Debian Lenny installed. Due to a problematic upgrade to XP SP2, I decided to use the built-in system restore to reinstall XP. Also, I wanted to play around with Lenny more, so I decided that I'd reinstall two versions

Re: Linux and Windows partitioners fail to see opposite partitions

Elmer E. Dow wrote: I have an IBM R40 laptop which had WinXP and Debian Lenny installed. Due to a problematic upgrade to XP SP2, I decided to use the built-in system restore to reinstall XP. Also, I wanted to play around with Lenny more, so I decided that I'd reinstall two versions of Lenny, to

Re: Linux and Windows partitioners fail to see opposite partitions

>On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 3:45 PM, Elmer E. Dow wrote: [snip] > >So I used dban on the partitions to assure a fresh start, then reinstalled > XP using the built-in restore feature. I expected that XP would do what it > did during the last installation session: allocate the >whole drive to > itself

Linux and Windows partitioners fail to see opposite partitions

I have an IBM R40 laptop which had WinXP and Debian Lenny installed. Due to a problematic upgrade to XP SP2, I decided to use the built-in system restore to reinstall XP. Also, I wanted to play around with Lenny more, so I decided that I'd reinstall two versions of Lenny, too. So I used dban on