--- VB <vboyt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > --- Peter Teuben <teuben@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, VB wrote: > > > > > Ever since installing FC3 on my empty partition > > I've > > > been having problems with hard disk consistency > > > restarting from Linux into Win XP. First, > anytime > > I > > > restarted from Linux to XP I would get the > Windows > > > drive consistency dialogue. That has gone away > in > > the > > > past few days and now my boot of Windows just > > fails at > > > the Windows boot screen (with the progress bar). > > > > > > Where I can start looking for the cause of this? > > Has > > > anyone had problems like this? > > > > > > I don't think my story is the same as yours, > though > > it does look > > a bit alike. Mine was bad from the start, after > > linux was installed, > > no more windows.... Eventually i solved it, but > > with a lot more > > hassle than I would ever like to admit (and my > > thus-far flawless > > linux installs have now been tarnished.....). For > a > > full record, > > see > > > http://www.astro.umd.edu/~teuben/linux/laptop/dell-810m.html. > > > > Had i not used parted, probably everything would > > have been fine. > > > > - peter > > Thanks for the response. Right, the story is not > quite like mine. > > I'm thinking my problem may be because the hard > drive > I am currently using was imaged from an image of my > old drive. That image, in turn, was created from a > hard drive that I had used Partitition Magic a > couple > of times to resize my Windows XP partition. Perhaps > these two factors have created an odd issue. Of > course the combination presents a slew of > possibilities of what may be causing the problem. > I've accepted that, but what can I do to start > investigating?? Oh BTW, I should probably clear up my initial description. Rebooting from Linux to XP causes XP to freeze at the startup/boot logo BUT doing a hard reset after this freeze and booting Windows XP does work. Soo...what type of problem can this be?? __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/
