OT: Windoze can't find disk
Karl Larsen
k5di at zianet.com
Sun Jun 17 22:36:01 UTC 2007
Geoffrey Leach wrote:
> Sorry.
>
> I ask this because the system in question is dual-boot FC6, and hence
> there might be someone who's experienced the same problem.
>
> Otherwise, please accept my apologies.
>
> A fully functional dual-boot FC6/Windoze XP system had its MB replaced.
> On being returned (and the disk reinstalled) it booted FC6 just fine,
> but XP could not find the disk. Not that it just would not boot, but
> that under no circumstances (CD boot, ASR boot, normal boot) could XP
> find the disk. The disk partitions are: 1 - NTSF, 2 - /boot, 3 - /.
> Any suggestions as to what might be missing? FWIW, the disk is SATA,
> and, yes, the driver disk was provided at the appropriate time.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>
You have one disk which was called /dev/hda that has both WinXP and
Linux. Are you sure there are no other disks on the computer? If not
then the WinXP is at /dev/hda1 and it's happy. Win XP MUST be on the
first disk at the first partition, period.
Karl
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