Hi Danny,
Have you tried creating a Windows partition yourself? I have a Presario
700 and found that if I partition the disk myself then the install disk uses
the first partition rather than creating its own (the first one was a
windows partition). That allowed me to dual boot.
Rich
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From: "Danny Yee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 8:46 AM
Subject: [SLUG] XP dual boot debacle
> My girlfriend recently bought a computer, a Compaq Presario 6000,
> and the first thing I tried to do was set it up to dual boot Linux.
> (Though she didn't previously have a computer, she's a programmer who
> uses AIX at work, and was quite excited by the prospect of getting C,
> perl, python, etc. development tools.)
>
> I did a RedHat 8.0 install, repartitioning the 80gig hard drive,
> leaving 50gig for Windows and using the rest for Linux. There were
> some problems -- the modem wasn't detected and I fear it's some kind
> of evil WinModem -- but I got everything basically working.
>
> When I went to reinstall Windows, however, I found that the restore CD
> insisted on reformatting the entire hard drive! Aaarrrgh. Is there
> any way around this? (As far as I can tell, parted and FIPS won't
> resize NTFS partitions -- is there some other way of doing that?)
> And is it worth complaining to Compaq (or the ACCC) about this?
>
> Danny.
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