Package: cdrom
Version: Debian 3.0 r0 i3
I recently buyed a AMD Athon based computer with Windows XP preinstalled
During installation, Fdisk is not capable of reading the partition table of
my 160 GB ide disk
Installation fails as it is not possible to create partitions to install
Linux.
I do not want to erase the 75.20 Go primary partition which contains the
Win XP installation (pre-installed,
only the recovery CD is available, imoortant features for me not yet
supported by linux drivers,e.g.
video capture support for nVidia GEforce Fx chip).
When starting Win XP, partitions are reported as follows :
primary C: 75.20 Go
extended
logical disk D: 996 Mo
LD L: 67.01 Go
LD E: 5.86 Go
When booting the Debian install disk , the cfdisk says :
FATAL ERROR : Bad primary partition 1 : Partition ends after end-of-disk
Press any key to exit cfdisk
I escaped to the shell, mounted a floppy with sfdisk and
obtained :
Disk /dev/hda: 16709 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0
Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 0+ 9816 9817- 78855021 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2 9817 19456 9640 77433300 f Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
start: (c,h,s) expected (1023,254,63) found (1022,0,1)
end: (c,h,s) expected (1023,254,63) found (1022,254,63)
/dev/hda3 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
/dev/hda4 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
/dev/hda5 9817+ 9943 127- 1020096 7 HPFS/NTFS
start: (c,h,s) expected (1023,254,63) found (1023,1,1)
/dev/hda6 9944+ 18691 8748- 70268278+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
start: (c,h,s) expected (1023,254,63) found (1023,1,1)
I succesfully installed a year ago that Distribution on a Pentium II
laptop.
What can be done so that the the linux fdisk and Win XP are consistent and
partitioning is safe ?
Thank you in advance for your help
Alain ROOS
mail : alain dot roos at degussa dot com
