[GLLUG] Re: How do I switch back to windows 2k3 (dual boot?) ?

[Jolyon Michael Vincent]

My attempts at formatting a 160GB drive to work with windows xp home, redhat 
7.2, and 2k3 have failed. I have relegated my OS to XP Home (at the moment) 
and have found that XP does NOT recognize the drive larger than 130gb. 2K3 
does; but in both instances NTFS was the ONLY filesystem available to be 
installed during setup. I tried to install FAT32 so that linux will 
recognize the partitions. I made a 70GB partition....Need to know the 
following: 

#1 What versions of red hat support (how large in GB?) EXT3 partitions?
#2 What version of redhat (without buying support) can I download and 
install that supports 160GB drives and/or 160gb partitions?
#3 How do you get Redhat 7.2 to recognize on setup NTFS? 

Windows 2K3 was able to (as a part of initial installation) recognize my 
drives and gave me the ability to (C)reate a Partition
                                 (D)elete an existing partition or logical 
drive. and (L) <--- confirms you want to delete a partition. 

After several attempts with an IDE Master on IDE1 and IDE2 to install to HdC 
I decided to unplug the power on IDE1 and force XP home to install to IDE2 
(hda0). Also, I have disk 1 of 2 for Irix, and would like to inquire as to 
anyone who has run multiple boots on a single drive. Do I need to reformat 
my drive and reinstall ALL or some of the OS's I have planned? If so, are 
there any open-source or free utilities available that would help me 
partition the drives? What partitioning utils would you reccommend to be 
used in this particular instance? 

Irix is not a priority, but XP home/pro and 2k3 server with Linux 7.2 or 
higher is. 

Matt Graham writes: 

> On Friday 16 January 2004 16:06, after a long battle with technology, 
> Brian Hoort wrote:
>> At 03:55 PM 1/16/2004, Jo Dillon wrote:
>> > Counterpoint (but not with XP; I've dual-booted with every
>> > Windows /other/ than XP and ME though) - I've never had any
>> > problems with Windows clobbering my bootloader. It's usually best
>> > to partition, then install Windows (which will clobber whatever was
>> > previously in the MBR), then install Linux, though.
> 
>> My experience mirrors Jo's.  I've never had Windows clobber the MBR. 
>> I have seen it once on a friend's PC, however.
> 
> Whether a Windows installation overwrites the existing MBR seems to 
> depend on the installation CD itself.  The 'Doze2K CD I have for my 
> laptop does not clobber the MBR.  The 'Doze98 CD that came with my 
> first x86 does clobber the MBR. 
> 
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