http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5913
------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-22-09 22:51 ------- I already encountered this problem and I solved it with a workaround. I'll try to explain with my poor english. Windows don't like a fat32 made by Mandrake. That's true. With windows 95 or 98, you can boot on the CD and make an install. Everything seems good but the first reboot said that the disk is corrupted. I discover this in february 2000 when I wanted to left a partition for windows in my new PC. Since this date, I have not any Windows at home ;-) The partition was left empty. Two years later, when I gave the computer to my daughter, she needed windows and I found the same problem. After several tries, I succeed. I found again the same problem a week ago. When installing Linux, create the window partion an format it with fat32 to make an entry in fstab and lilo. If you want install windows after Linux, delete the Windows partition (C:\) with diskdrake ! Then, Windows found an empty disk and format the free room. The windows install is then correct, the linux partitions are ignored and not erased. Last step, boot with rescue disk and run lilo to restore the multiboot. In case of windowsXP, NTFS is used and fstab must be updated. This is an old problem: at least 3.5 years old. IMHO, if this bug is too difficult, ignore it and write a workaround in good english. A warning can be shown by diskdrake in case of an empty windows partition at the beginning of the disk. -- Configure bugmail: http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is. ------- Reminder: ------- assigned_to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] status: ASSIGNED creation_date: description: I installed Linux Mandrake 9.2 rc2. I partitionned my harddisk during the installation process. After I fully installed the distro and that I used it one time, I wanted to install a Microsoft Windows OS again. I first booted on a Microsoft boot floppy disk. I ran fdisk. When I wanted to see the partition table (choice 4), then fdisk program frozed always. I tried to boot on a CD but Microsoft Windows NT told me I had a disk error. I decided to install Linux Mandrake 9.1 final (minimal install). I used it one time. I then booted on a floppy and I could use fdisk ! I suppressed non dos partitions (previous Linux install) and created 1 primary dos partition and one extended dos partition. On the extended dos partition, I created a logical reader. I could then saw C: and D: readers. I rebooted and formated the 2 partitions with the windows file system.
