Dan Buthusiem wrote:
I think it has something to do with the way the OSes use the outer edge of the harddrive. It's not supposed to contain any formatting, but OSes and some viruses use that part of the disk, anyway. If you boot back and forth between the different OSes, they overwrite eachother's data stored within that space and it makes the computer hiccup during bootup. When you do a hard reboot, XP already has had the chance to overwrite the Linux data.
I don't have a clue how to fix it. I'm still in school learning how
everything works. At least you have an explaination as to what's going
on. I've heard it could make the drive fail, but my teacher still
speaks of installing Windows 98 and FAT16 formatting. lol
This situation sounds similar to mine.
My HDD, which was working quite well prior to FC3, suddenly began reporting errors. XP wanted to scan on startup. FC3 and LVM would repeatedly tell me that i had errors on my XP partition. All attempts to repair them failed. Eventually the smartd daemon began to suggest i back up.
I replaced the Hard disk and out of curiousity used it on another system for a while where i installed FC1 only.
Worked quite well for a while.
Good luck
On Apr 9, 2005 7:55 PM, VB <vboyt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
--- VB <vboyt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
--- Peter Teuben <teuben@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:http://www.astro.umd.edu/~teuben/linux/laptop/dell-810m.html.
anytimeOn Fri, 8 Apr 2005, VB wrote:
Ever since installing FC3 on my empty partitionI've
been having problems with hard disk consistency
restarting from Linux into Win XP. First,
IWindows
restarted from Linux to XP I would get the
indrive consistency dialogue. That has gone away
thethough
past few days and now my boot of Windows justfails at
Hasthe Windows boot screen (with the progress bar).
Where I can start looking for the cause of this?
anyone had problems like this?I don't think my story is the same as yours,
it does looka
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
full record, see
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??
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