[wellylug] partition table + win2k/linux/Seagate Disk Manager

[Jonathan Harker]

On Sunday 23 Feb 2003 12:09 am, Ilia Pavlenko wrote:
> Greetings.
>
> I've encountered a weird problem with a recently installed HDD.

You're probably going to have to start again!

You shouldn't need any third party software to divy up your drive. Nuke your 
drive and start with it completely blank. Use W2K to define your two windows 
partitions at the front. I suggest NTFS for the C drive, which contains only 
the Program Files, Docs and Settings, and WINNT folders, for security 
reasons. Stick everything else on a FAT32 D drive (and point My Documents to 
it) so you can read/write your data from Linux too. NTFS is readonly from 
Linux however, so its up to you!

Leave the rest of the drive unpartitioned - your Linux distro should take care 
of its own partitioning at install time.

BTW, you may want to consider having at least a separate partition for /home - 
this keeps your data separate if you ever need to nuke your linux distro, 
swap into another computer, etc. 

How much room do you have for Linux?

-- 
Jonathan Harker
MUSAC
Massey University
http://www.massey.ac.nz/

Rule 1:
   The Boss is always right.

Rule 2:
   If the Boss is wrong, see Rule 1.


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