On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 9:49 AM, Eben King <eben01@verizon.net> wrote:
> I got a 312 GiB (marketed as "320 GB") SATA drive and a USB case. My aim is
> to use it as a bootable backup for my 78 GiB / 80 GB internal drive, and
> also to hold XP. To that end, I partitioned it as follows:
>
> partition mount point size
> 1 / backup 15.5 GiB
> 2 swap 2.3 GiB
> 3 /usr backup 4.2 GiB
> 4 extended 276.9 GiB (eg the rest of the disk)
> 5 /home backup way too big ... I'll deal with that
> 6 XP 49.9 GiB
> (more unpartitioned space)
>
> So the XP installer complains there's no XP-compatible partition available,
> but it won't say what it wants. Good design, folks. Anyone know what it
> wants? I tried making it "bootable" and also setting the same flag for
> partition 6, no go. I deleted and recreated the partition using XP's own
> utility, no dice. Does it need to be primary? The first, $DEITY forbid?
> Can I make it like it wants it, then use gparted to move it to where I want
> it?
>
> And fdisk complains for partitions 1-4 that "Partition N does not end on
> cylinder boundary.". I guess that for each of those, I need to note what
> cylinder it ends on now, delete then remake it so it ends on a cylinder
> boundary. Unless there's a way to clean it up non-destructively?
>
All the windows stuff I have done wants to be the first partition on the medium,
based on that I would repartition and put it where it wants. Another
M$ "feature"
that makes them even less likable.
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