On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 13:26 +0100, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
> On Friday 8 December 2006 01:13, James wrote:
>
> > That or many other methods never seem to work for me. XP is spread
> > out all over the disk and the recovery partition is very difficult to
> > deal with too.
>
> Ah ok, that was not cle
On Friday 8 December 2006 01:13, James wrote:
> That or many other methods never seem to work for me. XP is spread
> out all over the disk and the recovery partition is very difficult to
> deal with too.
Ah ok, that was not clear to me, and also I did not know that you had a
recovery partition.
On Fri, 8 Dec 2006 08:29:23 +, Mick wrote:
> You'll need to defrag & reboot a couple of times using the
> Administrative Tools/Disk Manager for the job before you shrink the
> WinXP partition.
Also, Windows puts something in the middle of the partition, so you can
only shrink it by just under
On Friday 08 December 2006 00:13, James wrote:
> Etaoin Shrdlu unlimitedmail.org> writes:
> > > > Once again, I'm installing several amd64 systems with dual boot XP.
> > > > I always have to nuke the XP, reformat, leave sda1 for XP and
> > > > continue on with the install. Since I am installing G
On Fri, 8 Dec 2006 00:13:30 + (UTC), James wrote:
> That or many other methods never seem to work for me. XP is spread
> out all over the disk and the recovery partition is very difficult to
> deal with too.
You need to defrag the Windows partition (from Windows) before resizing
it.
--
Nei
Etaoin Shrdlu unlimitedmail.org> writes:
> > > Once again, I'm installing several amd64 systems with dual boot XP.
> > > I always have to nuke the XP, reformat, leave sda1 for XP and
> > > continue on with the install. Since I am installing Gentoo first
> Maybe I missed something, but why do yo
On Thursday 07 December 2006 08:47, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
> On Thursday 7 December 2006 05:10, James wrote:
> > > Once again, I'm installing several amd64 systems with dual boot XP.
> > > I always have to nuke the XP, reformat, leave sda1 for XP and
> > > continue on with the install. Since I am in
On Thursday 7 December 2006 05:10, James wrote:
> > Once again, I'm installing several amd64 systems with dual boot XP.
> > I always have to nuke the XP, reformat, leave sda1 for XP and
> > continue on with the install. Since I am installing Gentoo first
Maybe I missed something, but why do you
On Thu, 2006-12-07 at 04:10 +, James wrote:
...
why can't you install xp first? (I only trust windows when formatting
ntfs btw :)
so long as xp installs into a partition smaller than the total disk
size, then install linux second, let it overwrite the mbr in the
process, and voila! dual boot!
James tampabay.rr.com> writes:
> Once again, I'm installing several amd64 systems with dual boot XP.
> I always have to nuke the XP, reformat, leave sda1 for XP and continue
> on with the install. Since I am installing Gentoo first (amd64 livedcd)
> is there any things to watch out for, when I g
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