Install Issue

[sumduminjun]

Have a older Gateway with AMD 650 with 384 gigs ram. Have two hard drives installed. Drive 0, ten gig hard drive, has windows 98 second edition. Drive one, 115 gig hard drive, has/had? windows xp. Used Nortons partition magic to set up Linux on drive one. Tried doing it through xp but would not let me. Kept failing when I would try. I was able to partition drive one through windows 98. Have been able to install Kubuntu on drive one. Everything works well when I boot into Kubuntu. I like. Grub is program controlling what to boot. When I get to what system to boot window, it shows Kubuntu and Windows Xp. If I choose windows Xp ( on/dev/sda1 ) it takes me to the windows boot screen. Here I have a choice between win 98 and win Xp. If I choose win 98 it loads and works fine. If I choose win Xp it starts to load and then shows me ( auto ck not found, skipping auto ck ) and then it shuts down and reboots. Can I do what I am trying to do? Before you ask me why I would want to have win 98 and win Xp and kubuntu? All I can say to that question is just because I would like to. I know very little about Linux. Have played with ubuntu over the years but have never really stayed with it. With the new Kubuntu 9.10, I thought I would try it again. Pretty much I am out playing and this time around I want to learn more about this operating system. Have been with windows since win 95 came out. Have been able to keep windows working with a lot of patience and maintenance. I have kept all of the computers and laptops since I started using them. They all work quite well considering they all run windows. They have served me well over the years. Thanks for any help you can assist me with.

[vinnywright]

Re: Install Issue

sounds like you over rote XP

boot into Kubuntu and open a Konsole.

type

sudo fdisk -l

thats a lower case L not an I

and post the output

VINNY

[sumduminjun]

Re: Install Issue

Thanks for quick reply vinnywright.

Disk /dev/sda: 10.3 GB, 10262568960 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1247 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x83548354

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 1247 10016496 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)

Disk /dev/sdb: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x15752021

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 262 12086 94984281 17 Hidden HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb2 13208 14593 11133045 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sdb3 * 12087 13207 9004432+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdb4 1 261 2096451 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdb5 14571 14593 184716 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb6 13208 14506 10434154+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdb7 14507 14570 514048+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Partition table entries are not in disk order
x@GatewayX:~$

[vinnywright]

Re: Install Issue

well it looks like it's still thare..XP that is

so now I'm thinking file system coruption.....if you have a xp disk see if you can boot recovery console and run chkdsk /f on it the NTFS partition that is...if not you could try ntfsfix from the ntfsprogs package.

NTFSFIX(8) NTFSFIX(8)

NAME
ntfsfix - fix common errors and force Windows to check NTFS

SYNOPSIS
ntfsfix [options] device

DESCRIPTION
ntfsfix is a utility that fixes some common NTFS problems. ntfsfix is
NOT a Linux version of chkdsk. It only repairs some fundamental NTFS
inconsistencies, resets the NTFS journal file and schedules an NTFS
consistency check for the first boot into Windows.

You may run ntfsfix on an NTFS volume if you think it was damaged by
Windows or some other way and it cannot be mounted.

it all so looks like you did some fancey moving/resizing of the NTFS partition to put swap in frunt of it.

so that allso may have somthing to do with it as well




VINNY

[sumduminjun]

Re: Install Issue

Thanks for away to try and see if I can recover what it is I have done so far. Will look at this tomorrow as it is getting late and have a beer are two to many in me.