On Fri, 25 Mar 2005, Peter Teuben wrote: > > 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..... I didn't get any responses to it, but since i posted the question and now "solved" it today (which GREAT trouble), might as well give the "solution": http://www.astro.umd.edu/~teuben/linux/laptop/dell-810m.html contains my abbreviated version to this seemingly never ending story. I think the sort summary was a partition table which linux and windows can't agree on, perhaps the BIOS was involved too... I'd rather forget about the whole thing. There probably were shortcuts i could have taken, i still would love to hear them. peter
