downset13
June 30th, 2008, 11:45 PM
So here is the run down:
HDD1
C:Vista Primary
E:Vista Recover
HDD2
D:Vista Storage
F:XP
So I booted up the ubuntu install planning to get rid of the vista primary
partition and install ubuntu on about 20 gig of it and leave the rest
for ntfs storage. I deleted the vista primary partition and created a 2 gig
swap partition, a 12 gig root directory, and left the rest unformatted. This was all done under the manual settings of the ubuntu install. I told it to continue and went on my way.
Well when i restarted the system it only gave me the longhorn (loader) option under other operating systems. I installed the gnome partition manager to find this:
Disk1:
dev/sda1:reiserfs
dev/sda2:linux-swap
unallocated
dev/sda3: ntfs
Disk2:
unallocated
Please please PLEASE tell me it didn't format disk2 when i didn't ask it to. If it didn't... how can i convince GRUB to let me boot to XP?
Thanks!
HDD1
C:Vista Primary
E:Vista Recover
HDD2
D:Vista Storage
F:XP
So I booted up the ubuntu install planning to get rid of the vista primary
partition and install ubuntu on about 20 gig of it and leave the rest
for ntfs storage. I deleted the vista primary partition and created a 2 gig
swap partition, a 12 gig root directory, and left the rest unformatted. This was all done under the manual settings of the ubuntu install. I told it to continue and went on my way.
Well when i restarted the system it only gave me the longhorn (loader) option under other operating systems. I installed the gnome partition manager to find this:
Disk1:
dev/sda1:reiserfs
dev/sda2:linux-swap
unallocated
dev/sda3: ntfs
Disk2:
unallocated
Please please PLEASE tell me it didn't format disk2 when i didn't ask it to. If it didn't... how can i convince GRUB to let me boot to XP?
Thanks!