On Sun, 04 Jul 2010 02:20:29 -0000
"chi_joan_pc" <jleach728@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
>
> --- In LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com, Donald Cooley <dfcooley@...>
> wrote:
> >
> > I know this is a Linux forum but I also know many of us multi-boot.
> > I need some help with installing and booting xp from a second hard
> > drive. I know there is a lot of information on Google, but I am
> > getting a migraine wading through it and restarting my machine with
> > the xp installation disc. I know xp is being phased out but I need
> > it for some games.
> >
> > I have slackware and openbsd on /dev/sda. No problems there. I
> > bought a western digital caviar 680G
> > <http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?Sku=TSD-640AAKS%20TD>
> > This is an oem drive. I used cfdisk to give it a ntfs of 100g and
> > then formatted it with gparted. The problem I'm having is when I go
> > to install Windows I get to the screen about using a partition and
> > I get an error saying something like I don't have a valid xp
> > partition. I've tried deleting and letting windows create a
> > partition but it refuses. I was hoping to get this finished this
> > weekend. Any help would be appreciated.
> >
> > --
> > Regards,
> > Donald Cooley
> >
>
> http://www.cooldrives.com/mrsatrmorawi.html
> http://www.cooldrives.com/4posaiisw3ba.html
>
> The above links might solve some problems, no dual-boot required,
> swap out drives or select another one and boot. Because I think
> WinXP expects to be master OS. You'd have to hide the one hard drive
> from the other otherwise by way of another boot manager. This is why
> dual-boot usually starts from DOS or Windows.
>
> http://www.linuxquestions.org/linux/answers/Applications_GUI_Multimedia/Booting_Windows_on_second_HD_with_Grub
>
> http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/installation/83683-install-windows-second-hard-drive-while-linux-first-hard-drive.html
>
> I hope others can update those for you
>
> Joan in Reno
>
I didn't trim to keep the context.
Thank you for the links. Shouldn't
windows be able to create a partition though? It "sees" the new hard
drive alright. It lists the other disk and the new disk. It refuses to
create a partition or use one I've created already with cfdisk or
gparted. The error is something like "there is not a valid xp partition
or file system" Sorry if I'm not explaining myself clearly.
No comments:
Post a Comment