Lepy
May 26th, 2009, 07:40 AM
So, I got a new 500 gig WD Caviar Black that is quite speedy and wanted to use it as my OS drive.
I installed WinXp and then Win7RC (recognized as sdc5 and sdc6 respectively in gparted) and used gparted's copy function to transfer my Ubunty 32 and 64 bit installs as well as my home folder to ext3 partitions I created on the Caviar (recognized as sdc9, sdc10, and sdc8 respectively). I used the remaining space as an ntfs partition for storage/program installs until I can get my 1TB Raid 1 setup.
After all of this, I used to the gparted CD to mount my 32bit install (sdc9), found the grub menu, and installed it on the mbr of the 500gig.
Now, both the 32 and 64 bit ubuntu installs are recognized, boot up, and share the home folder flawlessly, but I can't get the right menu.lst setting to let the windows installs boot. Instead I get an "Error 12: Invalid device requested" message no matter the combination I try.
sudo fdisk -l gives me this for the WD Caviar:
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 2 12058 96847852+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sdc2 * 12059 60801 391528147+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdc5 2 1403 11261533+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdc6 1404 5228 30724281 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdc7 5229 5483 2048256 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdc8 5484 8670 25599546 83 Linux
/dev/sdc9 8671 10455 14337981 83 Linux
/dev/sdc10 10456 12058 12876066 83 Linux
I hope I have just missed something simple as I do not want to have to transfer or install 4 different operating systems again, having wasted enough time.
I installed WinXp and then Win7RC (recognized as sdc5 and sdc6 respectively in gparted) and used gparted's copy function to transfer my Ubunty 32 and 64 bit installs as well as my home folder to ext3 partitions I created on the Caviar (recognized as sdc9, sdc10, and sdc8 respectively). I used the remaining space as an ntfs partition for storage/program installs until I can get my 1TB Raid 1 setup.
After all of this, I used to the gparted CD to mount my 32bit install (sdc9), found the grub menu, and installed it on the mbr of the 500gig.
Now, both the 32 and 64 bit ubuntu installs are recognized, boot up, and share the home folder flawlessly, but I can't get the right menu.lst setting to let the windows installs boot. Instead I get an "Error 12: Invalid device requested" message no matter the combination I try.
sudo fdisk -l gives me this for the WD Caviar:
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 2 12058 96847852+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sdc2 * 12059 60801 391528147+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdc5 2 1403 11261533+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdc6 1404 5228 30724281 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdc7 5229 5483 2048256 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdc8 5484 8670 25599546 83 Linux
/dev/sdc9 8671 10455 14337981 83 Linux
/dev/sdc10 10456 12058 12876066 83 Linux
I hope I have just missed something simple as I do not want to have to transfer or install 4 different operating systems again, having wasted enough time.