On Sunday 02 Nov 2003 10:14 am, Richard Bown wrote:
Thanks Thomas
I drive over after lunch and attack the machine again, and post the data to the group as well as yourself.
I still have this gut feeling about microsoft, for instance on a machine
with 2 HDs one has winxp on it the other MDK 9.1 if you mount the drive
with winxp on it then as root attempt to list the contents .Why should
you get permission denied messages.
this dos'nt happen with win2000 which is also ntfs .
it dos'nt explain why on install you can get a failure to write the
partition table to the mbr.
Sounds to me like there's a couple of BIOS settings that you need to change.
Switch the Virus Protection (stop software trying to write the boot sector, partition table, mbr) off. You can switch it back on when the install is finished.
Check the O/S is PNP option. ISTR the correct setting is off for Linux and On for Windows. I may be wrong here.
For Windows 2000 and Windows XP the bios should be set to off.
Larry
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