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Thread ID: 15250	2002-02-02 01:26:00	Installing Windows on a Linux Box	Guest (0)	Press F1

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33973	2002-02-02 01:26:00	I have recently purchased Red Hat 7.2 to put on my computer. Being a typical headstrong newbie, I installed Linux without giving it a partition to itself. This reformatted my hard disk. I'm not in the least bit worried, I had nothing on it. But now, after playing around with Linux, it's starting to lose it's novelty, and I can't get it to talk to my Windows boxes. So, I decided I would setup a dual boot system. After removing the partitioning from the drive with FDISK, I tried to install Windows '98 on my computer. The installation tried to reformat my disk, got to 5%, and stopped. I left it for 40 minutes, then restarted and tried again. The same thing happened. Is their something I need to do to make my computer Windows friendly?	Guest (0)
33974	2002-02-02 02:20:00	Linux can't do anything that permanent to your disk. MS FDISK can remove Linux partitions, but did you remove all of them? The Linux partitioning will have made an extended partition, then made logical partitions inside that. If you did not remove the extended partition, that might have left a residue of 5% ... You *did* power down, then restart before formatting, so that the BIOS recognised that the disk partitioning had changed? I'm struggling -- can't really see a sensible cause.	Guest (0)
33975	2002-02-02 05:14:00	Yes, I powered down. Yes, I got them all. I'm starting from an empty partition table. However - I tried making an MSDOS partition, and using format.com to reformat my hard-disk. It also got to 5% and came up with the message 'trying to recover allication unit 62,265'. For some reason Linux re-install perfectly. It's very strange.	Guest (0)
33976	2002-02-02 20:22:00	Another option could be: If you just want your other windows boxes to access files on the linux system, you could install samba. Samba is very easy to set up. If not then this site may be of assistance. www.linuxdoc.org	Guest (0)
33977	2002-02-04 09:21:00	Thanks for all your input. I really appreciate it. - unfortunatly Samba won't solve my problems - I need to be able to get on my windows boxes from this p.c. yeah I'm using the fdisk on the windows 98 CD - one would have thought that could work with a 38gb drive, wouldn't it?	Guest (0)
33978	2002-02-08 02:32:00	Well, try making two partitions -- it might work. And if you can format the 1GB (or so) one, it would be some progress. The other 19GB should be OK, anyway. I still can't think of anything which would do this ... Bloody computers. They can fail in the weirdest ways.	Guest (0)
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