I tried setting the ntfs partition as active, but it made no difference. Windows always sees the partition, it just does not like it for some reason.
on Thursday 03/06/2008 Rev. Stewart Marshall([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > Is the NTFS partition set as active? > > Unless it is set as active Windows will not see it at boot up. > > Stewart > > > At 04:34 PM 3/6/2008, you wrote: > >Hi all. I am trying to install Windows XP on a system which has > >partition 1 as an ntfs empty partition, and other partitions of the > >disk have Linux on them. When I try to do this, after hitting enter > >to select the partition, I get a message saying that the disk has no > >XP compatible partition. I even tried deleteing and creating a > >partition from the windows setup screen and itdid not do any good > >along with messing up the partition table. Anyone have a clue? > > > >Thanks. > > Rev. Stewart A. Marshall > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Prince of Peace > Ozark, AL SL 82 > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
