5 Cups of Ubuntu
This looks like I've accidentally come to the wrong forum...
Anyway, I've got two 20 mb partitions that I formatted and tried to put xp on, (which of course overwrites my Grub, but I figured that out), but I can't get past the first reboot. After it copies all of the files to the partition, it tells me "disk error, press any key" and won't go any farther. Can anyone tell me why this is happening? I've tried, ntfs, fat32, nothing seems to be working.
5 Cups of Ubuntu
Okay, weird. I think the installer might be putting boot.ini, NTDETECT.COM and ntldr in the wrong partition. Would that make sense? They have spontaneously appeared in my larger media partition twice now, and they reference XP. Halp!
Ubuntu addict and loving it
You might try booting the Ubuntu live cd, open gparted, then see where the boot flag is(probably on your larger data partition, which might be why your XP boot files are being installed there). If that is the case, you could try right click on the partition where you'll be installing XP & set the partition as active. This "should" set the boot flag to this partition. Then try installing XP.
Before reinstalling XP, you might want to use gparted to set the boot flag to the XP partition, then boot up with the XP cd, press "r", then run "fixboot" and "fixmbr". This may repair the boot files.
Ubuntu addict and loving it
I'm not sure how you have built the partitions, but I haven't gotten XP to install on a ntfs created by gparted. XP can be installed in a blank space, with a custom install and be told the size of the partition to be built.Originally Posted by Captain Carrot
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