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hung boot process
I have never seen this before but have google'd and seen loads of posts with this same error but I cannot see a clear solution in there at all. I have recreated this partition in the VISTA install but it still says this??? freedom:~ # cfdisk -Pt /dev/sda FATAL ERROR: Bad primary partition 1: Partition ends in

Convert new HP 32bit Vista home premium to Vista 64bit Ultimate
When I tried to reboot I got a message about a second partition, which I did not have on the hard drive. I assumed scandisk would run automatically and things would straighten out. Here are some of the things I have tried and the messages I then got: When I tried to install windows 98SE from the CD I got.

Cannot make HTTP Connection
If you can run grub-install, then you can also run update-grub to generate a working menu.lst. I found your post too late. I wiped my ubuntu installation and reinstalled Karl's way with one big partition, just to see if the various grub content got generated and it did. Next I ran locate *grub* from the /root

dualboot installation with ONE TB profile
Now, you can spend hours trying to find the bad driver, or you can reformat and reinstall the operating system and use Drive / Partition Imaging like Acronis, Ghost or BootIt NG to back up the operating system's partition, at various stages of installation, so when you find the bad drive, you can Go Back and

Getting partition too big on W2K re-install (NTFS)
Vista cannot simply be "uninstalled" yet your data kept . If you really want to do that...from Vista, create a folder for all the data you want to keep and put it there. Then boot over to XP and delete everything on your Vista partition *except* your data of course. Now you can perform a clean install...but be sure

Unable to install XP over Vista
Hello RC White, I installed Vista Ultimate from the DVD, it told me that the upgrade option was disabled and that I should do a clean install. It did offer to partition the corrupted hard drive, which I let it do and it installed correctly. I managed to get some settings back from a One Care back up.

Flying gParted
The installer will want to set up a bootloader - you do need that, even if you're not setting up a dualboot system - and if it asks you where to install it, pick the master boot record of the first hard disk, _*not*_ the bootsector of the first partition, as that would overwrite the MS-DOS bootsector!

Partition Reorganization / successfull ;-)
I partition the booting physical drive into small C: (boot/os), and balance of space to E:. The rest of my physical drives are single partition -- one If they don't offer the config to install someplace of my choosing, then I let them go where they want to, and just add the paths to Sonar's plugin manager.

assigning free hard drive space
Tom W. You can't repartition or reformat a disk (drive/volume/partition), or install to a disk (drive/volume/partition) that's in use, hence the reason you can not run the repair install from Safe Mode. Boot up with the XP disk in the drive. When you see the prompt "Press Any Key To Boot From Disk", Press any key

Fatal error 0x80004005 at installation
You cannot expand the windows partition, to utilise the full disk size, if you have installed with a sp level of win that doesnt support large disks, I had some fun trying to get to a point where the OS install asked how I wanted to partition the drive. I was stumped by this window that came up in the install:

How to do a repair from bootup
After a Pò of googolare and some test with some live-disk gnu/linux, the problem comes found in one absence of the flag of boot of the partition windows united to a The only thing that I did was install the new Windows Updates that they provided the night before. I cannot get into windows or system restore or

XP install loop while in Safe Mode
Using IPI Shortcut mode VFS: Cannot open root device "806" or unknown block(8,6) Da ist wohl noch ein falscher Parameter in der lilo.conf. "root=" boot option Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(8,6) Warum? lilo.conf enthaelt einen root-Eintrag fuer die Partition von /boot.

Dual boot - remove one OS.
Windows install left some leftover files from the XP days--some old .bak files, but cleared the boot.ini I assumed at the time because it is no longer used But I will be damned if I can figure out where it is getting the xp recovery console setting. I'm sure it is just left over in the bcd store--but I cannot edit

Move Vista to different partition
Vista cannot understand anything to do with partition reconignition. In fact Vista is so full of holes in this area that everywhere you go to find what error codes mean, some seem to find solutions for awhile, but all end up with " the only thing left to do is to re-install Vista. Yeah right ~ go there and you will

My Rebuild Problem
fred f...@y.cc microsoft public windows server active_directory I have done this install numerous times where I have told the AD install to install DNS at as a domain controller (if the specified domain is an Active Directory domain) or as an LDAP server (if the specified domain is an application partition).

GRUB: Error 28: Selected item cannot fit into memory bei ...
The "slim" installer also worked fine, and installation over native partition went through neat without hassles. (Yes, it did destroy the MBR, I cannot make out what the error messages are. Ctrl-C, Break, Ctrl-Break and even the three finger salute has no effect. I need to use the on/off switch !

"Windows cannot access the specified device, path or file"
Similarly sysinstall forgets to reserve 16 sectors for the label at the beginning of partitions, like bsdlabel says: "The first partition should start at offset needed since at present port developers need to add notes in UPDATING as a band aid to solve some complex cases which cannot be solved automatically.

IE7 or Firefox cannot play online videos on Vista
When I tried to reboot I got a message about a second partition, which I did not have on the It is just possible you might have had and not known it - some SET UP CANNOT INSTALL WINDOWS 98ON YOUR COMPUTER AN ERROR WAS DETECTED WHILE TRYING TO READ OR WRITE TO YOUR HARD DISK I've never tried booting from the

Strange install problem
But went to rebuild (6.2) and > got caught in a loop -- note, that´sa loop -- in these steps: -- Select Drive -- FDISK Partition Editor ("Q") -- Install Boot If I cannot rebuild, can I > just add the ports? What about changing pw? 1) I'm not sure what you mean about "rebuild" - I wouldn't ever need fdisk or

Help me to install RAID pls
Normally you would boot with the media and delete the old partition, create a new one, format, and continue with Setup. "Guus Ellenkamp" <Ellenkamp_G...@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:eCKvBTRbIHA.5348@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl... I want to install XP over an (old) installation of 2003. I cannot use the CD.