The victim: a brand new Dell laptop, with a small FAT16 partition and big remainder of FAT32 of WinXP. We choose FAT32 so we could more easily share in Linux. We decided to use parted, so booted with FC3 rescue and resized the WinXP partition from 78 to 15 GB. Then booted to windows to check, but it failed. Decided it might be a MBR/Grub issue, so continued to install FC3, and confirmed Linux boots with the new grub, even sees the WinXP nicely, and is able to look at files. However, still WinXP does not boot. We also confirmed that a rescue boot in WinXP and running FIXMBR didn't work, so this reminds me to this old problem we had in Core2 where the partition table could be corruptedly written. Is that a CHS vs. LBA problem? Problem is really, how do i get the partition table corrected? I can reinstall WinXP, but there is still that Dell Diag partition that is also corrupted. .... peter PS: i saw a solution (?) on a SuSe related page: they want you do make a driver disk, and insert that during the boot.....
