On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 12:11, Sean Goh wrote: > Hi, > Just to clarify, i want to install a dual boot system consisting of > WinXP and M8.2. I've already installed WinXP but i have trouble > installing M8.2 because of the problem stated earlier. Thanks for replying. > > Sean > > FemmeFatale wrote: > > > At 11:08 PM 11/25/2002 +0800, you wrote: > > > >> Hi there, > >> I'm having problems installing M8.2 over WinXP. I have a 20GB > >> harddisk and i partitioned it into 3. C: takes 5GB and D: takes 7GB. > >> The rest i left it for Mandrake. After installing WinXP using NTFS > >> filesystem, i booted M8.2 and ran the setup program. The problem came > >> in when it couldn't detect the partitions or something. > >> "An error occured. Ask_before_blanking: unknown partition table format." > >> Anyone knows how to solve this problem? > >> > >> Regards, > >> Sean > > The replies I've seen to this so far seem to have ignored the "unknown partition table format" message. This would be a cause of concern to me. Sean, can you tell us how you did the original partitioning? Did you start with a raw disk and use XP to partition during the install, or did you use another tool, like Partition Magic?
If you don't mind reinstalling your XP system, I would suggest the following: - boot the XP install disk - use the XP installer to delete all partitions - create your 1st partition on which XP is to be installed using either FAT32 or NTFS (I would choose FAT32 unless you feel the need for the "extra security" - create your 2nd partition as FAT32 so you can share data with linux - leave the rest of the disk unpartitioned and do the XP install - then install Mandrake, letting it handle it's partitioning HTH Brian
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