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

[Brian Hoort]

FAT32 can be up to 2 Terabytes -- but only if formatted with a W98 
disk.  The NT line of FAT32 formatters are stupified.  XP can only format 
FAT32 up to 32 GB. (page 34, XP Resource Kit).  The W2K formatter is similar.

At 05:55 PM 3/8/2004, you wrote:
>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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