Hi, It
sounds like windows isn't detecting the hard drive properly, ie only sees it as a
130gb hard drive not the full 250gb. Therefore when you install edubuntu and create a 150gb partition, it might be
changing the partition table on the hard drive
and causing Windoze to crash.
If this is the case, you have 2 options
:
Install a second hard drive as the primary
master hard drive exclusivly for Windows. I sugest a 80gig or 120gig drive as it
looks like windows dosn't like hard drives over 130 gigs on your particular
motherboard. Install windows on the new hard drive. Once windows is
installed and runnung on the new hard drive, install Edubuntu onto the 250gig
hard drive.
The second option is to try get windows to
recognise the 250gig hard drive as a 250gig hard drive. To do this either try a
BIOS update, get updated motherboard drivers for the windows install or get
an updated version of windows xp.
Good
Luck
-----Original Message-----Last week i sent you a messagem saying that I could not install Edubuntu. It was a problem of the onboard Intel graphics card that i could overcome switching from VGA to 800x600 resolution or higher.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Mariana Curado Malta
Sent: 30 July 2006 11:58 AM
To: Edubuntu Mailing List
Subject: Window$ & Edubuntu sharing the same sda
But another problem ocurred and I have been trying to solve it with no success the whole week.
I am installing UBUNTU (EDUbuntu) in a partition of a drive of 250G (sda2 / and sda5 swap (2G)).
In sda1 there is Window$ wich was installed first with success. To install Window$ XP I did a partition of 100G (oddly the windows partition tool only sees a disc of 130G)
To install Edubuntu i did a parttion of 143 G to root and 2G to swap (linux sees all the 250 G of the disk).
Edubutu works perfectly soomthly and nicely (it is indeed a beautiful environment) but when I try to boot from Window$ frm GRUB it gives me a fatal error on that caractheristic blue screen "a la Window$" and doesn't boot. I did the same procedure twice ( i.e. i installed the machine completely from the zero - both OSystems - twice) and always the same problem. I did a boot from the Window$ CD and did a repair of the MBR. But it doesn't work. Window$ is destroyed in some way.
But my question here is not about Window$ but Edubuntu, because the problem is when i install it:
Why does this happens? I have installed allready many debian machines sharing disks and GRUB works perfectly and debian installation doesn't destroy the other OS. When I boot this machine grub runs and I get the menu with the right options. But when I choose Window$ i get the fatal error saying that I should reboot the machine.
I supose that edubutntu destroyes something on Window$ that doesn't have anything to do with the MBR. It is a guess, i do not know.
Anyone having (has) the same problem?
Ideas? I really need that Window$, it is a requirement for the machine. If I could choose...it would be a 100% Ubuntu/Edubuntu machine.
Thank you, Mariana
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