On Friday 09 Sep 2005 15:02, Anne Wilson wrote: > I'm new to laptops, and need to keep XP, so I've re-sized partitions and > started a Mandriva install. I've reached that early crunch-time, when the > partition table is to be written. Before I go any further are there any > caveats? > > Anne I'm not sure if its still the case but linux used to have a problem writing to a ntfs file system unless it was on another machine, (using samba or one of the other networking protocols), due to m$ mucking around with ntfs. The answer was to convert ntfs to fat32. Though you then lose the file larger than 4 GB support and of course m$ can't read any of the linux file systems. Also remember that windoz always sets up a swap file 1.5 times the size of your physical memory, generally in the root of the c: drive --
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