On Thursday 24 May 2001 07:30, Martijn de Keizer wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Somehow the Mandrake 8.0 installation program does not recognize my
> existing Windows 2000 partition.
>
> That leaves me with the only option of installing Mandrake on the HD and
> erasing WIn 2000 (which I really need for work). Why doesn`t the
> installation program
> properly recognize WIN 2000? Does it have to do with NTFS (which I use?)
>
> Would partition magic make a difference?
>
> Thnaks for any suggestions, Linux is great but looking at two unused
> install CDroms really sucks.
>
> Martijn
NTFS is a proprietary file system developed by Microsoft. Before win2000
there was NTFS4 which we can read and (experimentally) write and then there
was NTFS5 with Win2K. Again NO information is available without paying a fee
and signing a non-disclosure agreement. The NDA is something almost all
linux distributions will not do.... It would be a gross betrayal of its
customers to produce non-free(as in speech) software.
Win2k seems to run just as well on FAT32 partitions which linux can deal
with. Your option is to buy a proprietary program to reduce the size of the
Win2K partition, use Win2K with FAT32 instead, and let DiskDrake deal with
the partitioning problem or add a HDD to your computer--Remember that a new
HDD from a surplus house (even an ATA-66 or ATA 100 in the capacity of 7-15
G) is approximately the same price as a Partition Magic off-the-shelf that
can deal with Win2K NTFS5 partitions.
Civileme
