partitions

The question i have is a bit complicated see actually i have two partitions on my 40 GB HDD. The primary partition C drive has Windows 98 SE and second partition D drive has Windows XP Professional. Now i want to format the C drive and split it into two partitions for installing linux on it. The...

Hi, I have a 80 GB hard disk, FAT32 partitions which was running fine till recently. But one fine day it showed boot error. When i booted from a floppy the partitions did not show, I suppose the partitions have been deleted somehow. But what i need now is can someone help me in recovering...

I have Windows XP Professional SP2 running on following hardware configuration, Intel P4 3.4 GHz HT Asus P5AD2 Premium Motherboard. Segate SATA 120 GB HDD (FAT32 File system) Previously 2 months back my another secondary Samsung 80 GB PATA HDD (FAT32 File system) failed and so I removed...

I have WinXP on C drive and D,E,F are Windows partitions.All are NTFS partitions Linux FC4 is on G with ext3 partition and grub is installed on G partition.I have a SATA cable harddisk and thus couldnt install FC4 directly,but had to use check media option and then do it Everytime i boot into...

A brief descriptive : Linux Multimedia Player (LiMP) is a tiny Linux-based distribution that converts your computer into a multimedia player. It supports most of the known formats (MPEG 1 and 2, DivX, WMV, qt-mov, Real, MP3, WAV, WMA, and Ogg). It has auto-detection of partitions (IDE, SATA...

hey guys please tell me how to install windows partitions in ubuntu 5.4 . i know abt editin that fstab . but please give me a easy solution. and also tell me how i can install KDE in ubuntu . [Edited Batty]

Hi, I have 2 hard drives of 80 gb each(1 Sata HDD and 1 IDE HDD).Recently i used Partition magic to merge 2 partitions.I did it.But after that i was unable to view my partitions in that drive.WindowsXP is detecting the drive.But cannot view those partitions.Please help me out...

I was reinstalling XP and formatted my C:... The setup deleted all my partitions. I have extremely i portant data on my D: which is now in the unpartitioned space. Can I recover my data as it was? Now I have connected my hdd to another sytem... Pls suggest me some software to recover all...

I have a PC with 80GB 7200rpm SATA HDD with Windows XP+SP2 installed and partitioned the same into five NTFS partitions using Partion Magic 8.0 as: C for OS and Programs - 6.65 GB D for Games - 15.0 GB E for My Documents - 2.18 GB F for Audios and Videos - 18.2 GB G for Backups - 12.6 GB...

hi all i had installed ubuntu on my system on hdc and then installed mandrake 9.2 on hdb. now my problem is that when ubuntu boots up the X server does not start. how do i go abt making this all rt? also i would like to be able to access my files under ubuntu while i am working in...

Hello friends! I am having a big problem. I have a 80GB HDD with 5 Partitions on it. The partition size are as follows -: C Drive : 20 GB D Drive : 10 GB E Drive : 10 GB F Drive : 10 GB D Drive : 25 GB Everything was fine before I used Acronics Trueimage yesterday. I dont what...

Hi I have Multiple os in my system. There are 2 HDDs and I have partitioned the first HDD into 2 partitions using FAT 32 and the second HDD into 4 partitions using the NTFS. In the first HDD I have Win 98 in C drive, Win XP-1 in E drive. In the second HDD I have Win XP-2 in the D drive. The...

Well I have Just Downloaded All The 6cds Of Sun Solaris, I read some Articles Regarding Solaris installation help files,in couple of websites,But I Didnt Understand how To make partitions to install it,!! I m using 2hdd ie 120gb and 20gb,So Is 20gb Enough for solaris??? And how To...

hi folks ! i have just installed fedora core 4 on an a 10 gb partition of my disk with ext3 file system; i hav a 80 gb disk; and the other partitions are on the ntfs file system on windows -- XP; so can anyone tell me how to mount the remaining partitions on to FC4 without formating them...

Hi I m using 40 GB harddisc, in dual boot system. I've three partitions one of 10 GB and two each of 15 GB. In my XP all the three partitions are visible. but in 98 SE only two partitions are visible. In place of third partition my CD Rom appears. What must be the cause and help me to retrive...

1. You cannot log in as root when you open it. All copying and pasting of files, creating of files that need Root permission have to be done in console. 2. Even in gnome, double clicking is required to open any thing even in File browser. It does not show the content just when a folder is...

I have a seagate barracuda 80 GB hard disk drive with seven partitions, with last one (about 2 GB ) for the page file. Is it ok to place in the last partition or should i place it in apartition nearer to the windows partition or the program files partition?:?: My system specs are P4 2.66 Ghz...

My friend recently formatted his C drive and installed XP. But after installation the older partitions D,E,F,G are now shown as unformatted partitions. How could this happen? I tried using PC Inspector File Recovery and it gave this message bad parameter in boot sector, root directory...

i installed ASP Linux 10, but it doesnt see my Windows partitions (which are NTFS). Although, other Linux distros can see them...do i need 2 install somethin to make Linux see them?

i have 1 160 gb hdd crashed and all my valuable data gone but is there any way in which my hdd can be recovered bcoz in my hdd which has 4 partitions suddenly data of 1 partition get corrupted and then i restarted the computer then my all the 3 logical partitions get disappeared and only 1...