Hopefully a trivial problem. I'm installing windows XP to a laptop which has a 40gb partition at the front for windows, then 10gb for linux, then a large fat32 shared partition.
The xp cd, for reasons I don't follow, has nominated the fat32 volume as C:\ and so calls the new ntfs one D:\. It then refuses to boot from this.
I get a black screen with "disk error, press any key to restart" written on it, which tells me this again if I press any key. A touch frustrating, advice appreciated.
edit: Windows also appears to be making an extended partition before filling this with a single ntfs volume. I don't think this is helping. Cleaned this mess up in gparted and trying to install again, apparently to the E:\ partition this time.
Same error. Found a few files on the fat32 volume, boot.ini et al, and the fat32 one now has a daft name. Deleted the new files, reformatted the ntfs. Starting to wish I had a back up.
Stress over. Formatting in gparted, followed by tracking down and removing the crap xp has scattered across the other partitions, then installing without reformat solved things. Laptop is now running smoothly.
The xp cd, for reasons I don't follow, has nominated the fat32 volume as C:\ and so calls the new ntfs one D:\. It then refuses to boot from this.
I get a black screen with "disk error, press any key to restart" written on it, which tells me this again if I press any key. A touch frustrating, advice appreciated.
edit: Windows also appears to be making an extended partition before filling this with a single ntfs volume. I don't think this is helping. Cleaned this mess up in gparted and trying to install again, apparently to the E:\ partition this time.
Same error. Found a few files on the fat32 volume, boot.ini et al, and the fat32 one now has a daft name. Deleted the new files, reformatted the ntfs. Starting to wish I had a back up.
Stress over. Formatting in gparted, followed by tracking down and removing the crap xp has scattered across the other partitions, then installing without reformat solved things. Laptop is now running smoothly.
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