On Friday 12 March 2004 09:54 am, Chuck Mattsen wrote: > ... or something like that :-) (I'm still new to dealing with > partitions, dual boot, etc.) Anyway, I think I'm looking more for > confirmation here that my thinking is correct than anything else. > > Here's the deal. I had to use Partition Magic a month or two ago to > resize my laptop's XP Pro NTFS prior to my Mandrake install. So far so > good, and all went well. > > Both XP and Mandrake are booting just fine, no problems. I decided, > however, that I wanted to take some of the disk space still allocated to > XP and free up 5GB or so to use as a shared FAT partition which both > could access. > > So, fired up XP and Partition Magic, and immediately received an "Error > 116," which complained about LBA and CHS values being inconsistent, and > did I want Partition Magic to fix this error? I selected "No" and the > program exited. > > My /thinking/ is that selecting "Yes" would potentially fubar my Linux > setup (and possibly more), so I'm going to leave everything as is until > the official Mandrake 10 release (running 10 Community presently), at > which time I may do a fresh install (did an upgrade this week to 10) and > the possibility of trashing the partitions becomes less critical (and > I'll be bugging y'all at that point, probably, for pointers on making > sure I back up data properly :-). > > So, basically -- is my thinking correct that allowing PM to "fix" > anything at this point would likely cause a major headache? yes it is the 'end point' (as oppossed to the begining points) of the partitions that you don't want to screw with, adn since PM may not be able to correctly ID all the linux partitions, it might over write the end point of what was the old XP partioion or write an endpoint of the new fat partition where the begining point of the linux partitions 'shouild be/are'.
> I can > certainly live without the extra FAT partition for now, as I have plenty > of free space on both the XP and Linux sides of things, but it's on my > "to do" list. > > TIA
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