dual boot- Linux and Windows- Toshiba laptop...

[Bill Davidsen]

Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 13:29 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote:
>> Aaron Konstam wrote:
>>> On Sun, 2008-02-17 at 10:44 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote:
>>>> Mike Chalmers wrote:
>>>>> On 2/17/08, Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
>>>>>> On Sun, 2008-02-17 at 00:31 -0500, Mike Chalmers wrote:
>>>>>>  > I wasn't aware that the Toshiba recovery discs gave you the option to
>>>>>>  > partition the disc, that is why I asked. I thought that recovery discs
>>>>>>  > automatically took up the whole hard drive.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I don't know whether *they* do.  They weren't mentioned in the message
>>>>>>  that I replied to.  You'd have to check on yours, or simply try it, to
>>>>>>  see what options you get.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  I can imagine recovery discs restoring a system to how it was when you
>>>>>>  bought it.  In my case, on an Asus system, the initial setup was a 5 gig
>>>>>>  recovery partition, half the drive as the OS, remainder as a spare
>>>>>>  partition.  But I appear to have an ordinary Vista install disc, so I'd
>>>>>>  expect to be asked how I wanted to set up the drive.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  You can try pre-partitioning using Linux, and hoping that a Windows
>>>>>>  install may just use already set-up partitions.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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>>>>>>   important to the thread.)
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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>>>>> I think my best bet is to install Windows using the recovery discs and
>>>>> see if it has a partition option. If it does not then I will use a
>>>>> partition program to resize the partition and then install Linux.
>>>>>
>>>> I would install Windows first. Windows is far more likely to damage 
>>>> Linux that vice versa. Back when I ran dual boot I put the boot info in 
>>>> the Linux partition and made that the active partition. Some vendor 
>>>> Windows versions check the boot sector and object or "fix it" if it 
>>>> changes. The MSFT boot sector should (as in used to) boot the active 
>>>> partition
>>>> n, which then gets you into grub.
>>> The standard method that has always worked for me is:
>>> 1. Start installing Linux until the point where you partition ans set
>>> the types of the partition. Leave the first partition for Windows.
>>> 2. Install Windows into its partition.
>>> 3. Install Linux with grub boot in MBR on the first disk scanned.
>>>
>> That works, but some versions keep a CRC of the MBR and after a change 
>> either fail to boot or rewrite the MBR and then reboot. And the few 
>> times I have watched a Windows install you did get a chance to diddle 
>> partitions from that, although I don't remember if it was offered if 
>> there were partitions already.
> That may be but I have done this about 30 times and it has always works.

It's part of virus protection, you may have it off, be installing from a 
MSFT OEM version instead of vendor version, etc. If it works for you no 
reason to change, but people do hit this in the real world, I found out 
the hard way.

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