[wellylug] Screwed up laptop :(

[Centurion Computer Technology Ltd]

> > Why do you think that the file system had anything to do with it? I'm 
> > interested.
> 
> I've never had problem until now, with an NTFS system. I guess its not
> the file system per se, but my knowledge on how to install grub/lilo
> with an NTFS filesystem. 
> 
> The simple fact is that I prefer to have FAT32 on my Windows PCs anyway
> as it makes it easier should anything go wrong. I meant to do this
> before I did the Gentoo install initially but it slipped my mind.

I would highly recommend you remain with NTFS for Windows XP, or you are
going to find it performs very poorly, and you will forever be
defragging the fat32 partition.  Just make sure XP uses a basic
partition setup instead of Logical Disk Management, and you should have
no problems.  I should default to this if you reinstall XP after
creating the extra partitions for linux.

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	Daniel Reurich
	Centurion Computer Technolgy Limited
	
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