Stevyn
21st May 2004, 05:31 PM
Originally, I had this configuration on one disk:
1 main ntfs partition for windows
Extended:
1 ntfs partition
Ext3 partition
linux swap partition
I installed FC2 and it came up with an error saying the partition tables were not correct, but they could be fixed and it recommended I simply ignore and proceed. I did and it installed fine. Both fedora and windows xp booted without problems. However I went into Partition Magic in windows and it came up with some errors saying LBA and CHS values were not equal and it could fix them. I chose to have it fix them and then it says the whole disk is corrupt and I should reformat and repartition the whole thing. I then went back to fedora and it was somehow out of disk space, however I think that was not correct. Not wanting to reinstall windows, I booted up Hiren's Boot CD (very good tool) and using one of the programs on there it detected that the extended partition was corrupt and it deleted them. I didn't mind because the only thing that was lost was the newly installed fedora and the 2nd ntfs partition had nothing meaningful on it so nothing important was lost. I went back into partition magic, it said everything was good. I made a new ext3 and swap partition from the free space and installed fedora on that again. The fc installer still came up with the same error that the program that set up the partitions did them improperly but it said to ignore. I did that, installed fc again and both windows and fc boot properly. However Partition Magic still says the same error. Well I don't want to tell it to fix it again because that screws the disk up. This is on a Dell Inspiron 8200 laptop so I'm limited in that I can't easily swap drives out or add additional ones.
Any ideas? I think Partition Magic might be the culprit, but I've never had problems installing other distros using the same method.
1 main ntfs partition for windows
Extended:
1 ntfs partition
Ext3 partition
linux swap partition
I installed FC2 and it came up with an error saying the partition tables were not correct, but they could be fixed and it recommended I simply ignore and proceed. I did and it installed fine. Both fedora and windows xp booted without problems. However I went into Partition Magic in windows and it came up with some errors saying LBA and CHS values were not equal and it could fix them. I chose to have it fix them and then it says the whole disk is corrupt and I should reformat and repartition the whole thing. I then went back to fedora and it was somehow out of disk space, however I think that was not correct. Not wanting to reinstall windows, I booted up Hiren's Boot CD (very good tool) and using one of the programs on there it detected that the extended partition was corrupt and it deleted them. I didn't mind because the only thing that was lost was the newly installed fedora and the 2nd ntfs partition had nothing meaningful on it so nothing important was lost. I went back into partition magic, it said everything was good. I made a new ext3 and swap partition from the free space and installed fedora on that again. The fc installer still came up with the same error that the program that set up the partitions did them improperly but it said to ignore. I did that, installed fc again and both windows and fc boot properly. However Partition Magic still says the same error. Well I don't want to tell it to fix it again because that screws the disk up. This is on a Dell Inspiron 8200 laptop so I'm limited in that I can't easily swap drives out or add additional ones.
Any ideas? I think Partition Magic might be the culprit, but I've never had problems installing other distros using the same method.
