Re: Ntfs compability

[Tommi Tapani Piirainen <tommi.piirainen@hut.fi>]

Hi,

Ok, thanks I will try type 7 after I back up my recent data.

I toggled hda1 bootable, so I will change this for my linux partition.

Thank you cRaig from your answer:) If none of these changes will solve my
problem I will reinstall.

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Tommi

On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 21:10:33 -0500 cRaig <treehead@gmail.com> wrote:

> > /dev/hda1   *           1        9605    77152131   86  NTFS volume
> set
> 
> ;your problem may be the NTFS volume should be type 7 (HPFS/NTFS)
> instead of 86 or 87, which i believe is for dynamic disks (partitions
> spanning multiple disks).
> 
> ;another issue may be that your /dev/hda1 is toggled as bootable, i
> don't know for certain.  i thought that the bootable flag was just for
> linux, so is it possible that you toggled it on when you installed
> slackware, and linux has this as your /boot in /etc/fstab?  or did you
> turn that flag on in cfdisk yourself?
> 
> ;cRaig
> 
> On 3/14/06, Tommi Tapani Piirainen <tommi.piirainen@hut.fi> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have slackware 10.1. I rewrote my ntfs partition with cfdisk and
> now I am
> > unable to boot the partition (with windows xp). Can the problem be
> that i wrote
> > the table with cfdisk or could it be some thing else. In additional
> there is two
> > different ntfs partition is cfdisk both named same way. I used the
> first one
> > can't remember the number (or was it 86, don't remember).
> >
> > The reason for doing this was to include slackware to same disk.
> First I deleted
> > ntfs partition and made it smaller. Motivation for doing this was mbr
> chrash due
> > use of "System Mechanic 6" or at least I think so. I intalled lilo to
> mbr and it
> > fixed the mbr problem. Booting problems can also have some thing to
> do with
> > System Mechanic 6 altering my dll-files or some thing else.
> >
> > The ntfs partition is first partition in the disk and I use
> lilo-bootloader. Can
> > I fix the partition with ntfstools to be bootable?
> >
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