On Wed, 2005-04-27 at 00:12, Lee Hosty wrote:
> Patrick Stack wrote:
> > I've just tried deleting /dev/hda2 with fdisk and rebooting with win cd,
> > but no joy.
> > It looks like I'll have to get my hands on parted or other such, and
> > reformat the whole drive again, and this time put on Window$ first.
> > B0ll1x!
>> Its most likely the first / primary / bootable partition being
> unreadable by Windows thats causing the problem. You could try swapping
> your first two partitions aound ... but it might not work.
>That had occurred to me alright.
> Playing around with partitions? I recommend Ranish
>http://www.ranish.com/part/ for that sort of thing, aslong as you have a
> floppy drive. Its old, but usually works.
Thanks Lee, I'll try swapping them around.
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