Re: [Linux-users] Can linux boot even when windows can not?

2016-02-17 Thread Kent Fredric
On 18 February 2016 at 10:38, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > > Awkward!! Don't borrow RAM, only swap around what you have. Memory > faults can be awkward to find, especially when they're sporadic. It was more a question of a fast fault find. In the event that the problem

Re: [Linux-users] Can linux boot even when windows can not?

2016-02-17 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
On Wed 17 Feb 2016 21:44:03 NZDT +1300, Peter Simmonds wrote: > drive and kept going as it was! Booting is not an exception really, > it has far better programming to enable it to recover from what may > be slightly mashed up partitioning. Keep in mind that BillyFS(TM) was designed with the

Re: [Linux-users] Can linux boot even when windows can not?

2016-02-17 Thread Kent Fredric
On 17 February 2016 at 22:18, wrote: > I doubt it is the hard drives as boots fine 7 and 10 if I just use 2x2 gigs > ram in same slots, Did you try swapping the order of your ram cards? That can alleviate certain kinds of "Loaded into fixed address that happened to be

Re: [Linux-users] Can linux boot even when windows can not?

2016-02-17 Thread j . visch
I doubt it is the hard drives as boots fine 7 and 10 if I just use 2x2 gigs ram in same slots, I suspect the computer repair store will blame the hard drive configuration as I admit not ideal as 250g ssd drive with boot and windows 7 C partition, with I partition pointing to partition on 3tb

Re: [Linux-users] Can linux boot even when windows can not?

2016-02-17 Thread Robert Fisher
Peter I think you missed the point of the first post. It was the RAM which was upgraded not the hard drives. Robert Fisher On 17 Feb 2016 9:44 p.m., "Peter Simmonds" wrote: > Hi All, > > How did you actually go about moving windows to the new drive, and if win > 7 or

Re: [Linux-users] Can linux boot even when windows can not?

2016-02-17 Thread Peter Simmonds
Hi All, How did you actually go about moving windows to the new drive, and if win 7 or later, did you copy both partitions? If you don't mind, what did you use to copy these partitions? In the past I have successfully used Clonezilla and Redo Backup to copy windows partitions and keep them