ratavaz Posted March 22, 2004 Report Share Posted March 22, 2004 Hi all, I've just installed Mandrake 10.0 on my PC. The system has two disks, on disk 1 I just left the original Windows Xp partition, on disk 2 (bigger and faster) I have freed some 11gb from XP with Partition Magic. I've installed Mandrake 10.0 in expert mode, I got it to install in the free space, making two partitions: one of 10gb for '/' and a 1gb swap partition. Installation went OK. Now I can access with LILO both the XP installation and the Mandrake one and everything works fine. The main problem I have is that if I launch Partition Magic from XP, PM shwos for disk 2 with a single partition and says it is a damaged one. Any suggestion? Thanks Paolo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ratavaz Posted March 22, 2004 Author Report Share Posted March 22, 2004 Oops, sorry for the multiple posting. Internet Exploder keep on giving an error message whenever I tried to post and ended up startin 4 different posts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest anon Posted March 22, 2004 Report Share Posted March 22, 2004 Oops, sorry for the multiple posting. Internet Exploder keep on giving an error message whenever I tried to post and ended up startin 4 different posts. Its OK, I have removed the other posts. Welcome to the board!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arthur Posted March 22, 2004 Report Share Posted March 22, 2004 Windows can't detect any Linux partition, and would report it as damaged, but unless it tries to do something, don't worry about it, just use Linux like normal. btw, using 1 big / partition is not a good idea, at least try to separate /home...so you can reinstall without losing your stuff. mine is 1.2 gig / 3.5 gig /usr 2.1 gig /home 850 mb swap 1 gig FAT32 to share with windows Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AussieJohn Posted March 22, 2004 Report Share Posted March 22, 2004 With the exception of the very latest version, Partition Magic cannot recognise the ext.3 file form as used in Mandrake 10. I still use version 6 when I need to and it does a pretty good job. I just don't worry when I see the error message, when Mandrake is running OK. If I need to repartition the particular drive with Mandrake on it, I just throw in the Windows CDROM ( I use W2000) and do a dummy install up to the Install stage and abort after is has reformatted the Mandrake Partitions. Then I use Partition Magic as per normal. Some times the Windows steamroller can be useful. I can't think of any other times though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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