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brandonvvv

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Registered: 2008-07-18

Posts: 9

help with dual booting...PLEASE

so I just got a new laptop and ArchLinux is running great on it, I love everything about it.  I originally intended to run WinXP under KVM because there are some windows apps I need to use for my job.  It turns out my bios doesn't support KVM and I can't get what I need to run under wine, so I decided to bite the bullet and install xp. 

My hard drive partitions are as follows:
20 gb boot
5 gb swap
150 gb home
75 gb free

when I try to install windows xp it can't detect any hard drive installed on my computer.
all of my partitions are primary partitions, is that the problem?
if it is, is it possible to change the swap to an extended partition so i have room for another primary?

any help/suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

thank you!

Last edited by brandonvvv (2008-07-30 13:19:35)

Kai

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From: Germany

Registered: 2006-12-11

Posts: 27

Re: help with dual booting...PLEASE

Do you have a SATA HDD and if did you load the needed driver?

pheon

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From: Berlin, Germany

Registered: 2008-05-14

Posts: 91

Re: help with dual booting...PLEASE

Hello,

all of my partitions are primary partitions, is that the problem?
if it is, is it possible to change the swap to an extended partition so i have room for another primary?

No, that's not the problem. As Kai allready mentioned, Windows is unable to handle the SATA-HD.

An article dealing with this problem: http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/10/2 … ahci-mode/

Best regards

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