Dual boot (XP and Linux) - Newbie Linz

[Vincenzo Di Massa]

try cfdisk or fdisk to change partition type.

Alle 01:54, domenica 10 aprile 2005, Lindsay ha scritto:
> I have a PC that Ubuntu destroyed bu XP partition on and I have
> installed Mepis with the aim of getting it re-partitioned.
> However qtparted shows the Xp partition hda1 as free and hidden.
> Even though I have selected this partition under operations all
> operations are greyed-out accept Properties which doesn do much.
>
> I have to reactivate that partition as XP which just not go on any other
> partition no matter how hard I try.   I have created anther NTFS
> partition by it will not go on that.  I have tried Fdisk with DOS and it
> wont change it.  I would prefer is as FAT32 but cant even do that.
>
> Some idea's please.   This has been an on going problem for two months
> at least now.
> Linz