Hi all,
I am hoping you guys can help me out. I just finished building my rig and am trying to get a dual boot (ubuntu/xp) setup going. I installed windows xp pro, everything was fine. It only sees around 130GB of my 750GB seagate HDD though...that is strange. So i gave it an 80GB partition, installed windows xp, everything works. Then i installed ubuntu on the remaining partition. Ubuntu works just fine. Sees all 3 partitions (80GB windows ntfs, 2gb swap, remaining ~650gb for ubuntu). When i try to boot to XP, it immediatly blue screens (halt critical error, etc). I tried running the XP repair with no luck. Did the chkdsk and it said unrepairable errors, which is not true..the disk is fine. I did FIXMBR thinking i will fix the windows partition then go back and fix linux grub later, but it does the same thing. BSOD. I did diskpart and can see that XP sees the original unformatted 130GB disk again....which is strange. Linux still sees all 3 partitions as being fine.
Any thoughts on what is going on? Is there a partition/disk size issue with XP? Am i doing something wrong?
Thanks for any advice.
-JD
I am hoping you guys can help me out. I just finished building my rig and am trying to get a dual boot (ubuntu/xp) setup going. I installed windows xp pro, everything was fine. It only sees around 130GB of my 750GB seagate HDD though...that is strange. So i gave it an 80GB partition, installed windows xp, everything works. Then i installed ubuntu on the remaining partition. Ubuntu works just fine. Sees all 3 partitions (80GB windows ntfs, 2gb swap, remaining ~650gb for ubuntu). When i try to boot to XP, it immediatly blue screens (halt critical error, etc). I tried running the XP repair with no luck. Did the chkdsk and it said unrepairable errors, which is not true..the disk is fine. I did FIXMBR thinking i will fix the windows partition then go back and fix linux grub later, but it does the same thing. BSOD. I did diskpart and can see that XP sees the original unformatted 130GB disk again....which is strange. Linux still sees all 3 partitions as being fine.
Any thoughts on what is going on? Is there a partition/disk size issue with XP? Am i doing something wrong?
Thanks for any advice.
-JD