mike wrote: > Hi, I know this is a little off topic, but maybe someone out there can give > me some ideas. Ubuntu and Orca helped me out again today, but I have never > ran into this before. > A friend had a new dell computer with windows vista. He wants to use windows > xp instead. The problem I ran into was that when the windows xp disk boots, > it says it can't find a hard drive in the computer. The drive is a 320 gb > drive. > So, I booted intrepid, and it finds the drive with no problems. Using Orca > and cfdisk I had no problems removing the partitions. But windows xp still > says it can't find a hard drive. > Maybe I can convince him to use ubuntu instead. But has anyone else ever ran > into this before? I even tried partitioning the drive using ubuntu in to > small partitions, because I have heard there is a limit on the size drive > windows xp will see. But that didn't work either. This brings up another > thing. Is there a limit on the size hard drive ubuntu can see? > Mike.
What comes to mind is something to do with the bios. Examine th ebios setup screens to verify th ebios can see and recognise the HD? If it is a bios (an old machine?? but this is a new machine!) where the bios can only recognise HDs of up to a certain size, then even if you installed ubuntu it could not boot from the HD because the bios - which kicks things off initially, could not see the HD containing the booting partition. I have had this type of prob with older machines so I retained the old 10GB HD for booting - only a small booting partition is needed - and used a 320GB HD for the rest of the installation including the system partition/s. I am not sure if this could be to do with the problem you see though. hth good luck -- alan cocks Kubuntu user#10391 Linux user #360648 -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
