Dual boot with Vista - partitioning problems solved

[Husse]

Thermite?

We don't have these little buggers in northern Europe
Seriously - by erasing all the content of the MBR
either in DOS using the debug command or in Linux with dd

[McLovin]

no no no, thermite not termite.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermite hehehe

[Husse]

What a difference a h made

[McLovin]

What a difference a h made

yeah, one will eat your house, the other will mill make it disintegrate.

[miket]

Here's a screen shot of my Partitions on my support Laptop which has a number of Linux Operating systems installed along with Vista :

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Note the TOP 3 Partitions, these are the Windows Vista Partitions.

All the rest are various versions of Linux and data ...

Mike.
http://www.avanceit.co.uk

[atlef]

Hiya Brayan,

newbie here, but maybe I can help as I did the same: install of a linux system on same XP harddrive (Toshiba laptop)

1) used PartitionMagic to resize the original XP disk (40g) down to 30g. A primary partition.
2) created a 1.5Gb primary partition from the now unused 10g, for /swap, also a primary partition.
3) created remainder (8.5g) as an extended partition
3A) created a 8.5Gb Logical partition, EXT3 filesystem for linux install.

From the MINT Live CD, I selected MANUAL parittioning, which quickly offered me the option of using 1.5 Swap and "existing" 8.5 Linux (logical) parition.

As for PartitionMagic (http://www.Symantec.com and eBay), there are other partitioning routines out there, such as PClinuxOS that can be run from CD to accomplish the same. PCLOS and MINT install a nice Grub (loader) that automatically detects Windows as a dual-boot option.

MINT is the only distro that has kept me from going insane with one issue or another. Hope this helps.

regards,
Kelly

I would just like to point out that this is possible to achieve with the mint live cd as well or test the PartedMagic LiveCD, which is a great rescue cd as well.
Of course, if you have bought partition magic, you can use that.

atlef.

[McLovin]

Hiya Brayan,

I would just like to point out that this is possible to achieve with the mint live cd as well or test the PartedMagic LiveCD, which is a great rescue cd as well.
Of course, if you have bought partition magic, you can use that.

atlef.

Bought? People still buy that program?

[atlef]

Hiya Brayan,

I would just like to point out that this is possible to achieve with the mint live cd as well or test the PartedMagic LiveCD, which is a great rescue cd as well.
Of course, if you have bought partition magic, you can use that.

atlef.

Bought? People still buy that program?

What, do we not all buy our software, I'm not sure what you mean.

atlef.