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| Thread ID: 73241 | 2006-10-12 17:32:00 | Windows won't boot to install | hamstar (4) | Press F1 |
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| 490967 | 2006-10-12 17:32:00 | Hey guys, I'm trying to install windows on my laptop right, however it just doesn't want to boot for the first time. My partition are set up as follows: hda1: 1gb linux swap hda2: ~16gb reiserfs hda3: ~40gb fat32 data - contains boot files ntdlr, boot.ini, etc hda4: ~15gb - contains actually windows files OK, so I just finished the windows install (about 5 times) and no matter what i do it won't boot to complete the installation. It just gives "Disk Error". Remeber to windows, hda3 is C: and hda4 is D: Heres what I've done: Set hda3 and hda4 to active with linux fdisk - no dice Reinstalled GRUB, tried booting to both 3 and 4 - get NTDLR not found booting to hda4 (obviously) and Disk Error when booting to hda3 Tried deleting a line from boot.ini that said "C:\=unknown operating system" or similar. Boot.ini is pointing to hda4 - which should be correct right? Installed grub to mbr or hda2 - no dice So, you would think that it would be the 1024 sector boot error right? I installed the same way before. Linux first, then windows into hda3/4 however the only difference was I made windows format hda3 (to fat32) the first time as well as the hda4 to ntfs as I am doing now. So anyone heard of it not installing because it hasn't formatted the disk first? Cheers |
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| 490968 | 2006-10-12 18:20:00 | run a diagnostic on the hdd | drcspy (146) | ||
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