Installing windows AFTER linux??!?

voe · 02-26-2002, 07:19 PM

Ok, here's the deal....

My computer was an entirely Linux machine but I really miss red alert 2...so please dont give me any grief on this.

/dev/hda is divided between /home /boot and /

.dev hdd has a 1048 swap partition, a 5015 /storage

AND...2001 free space that was originally ext 3

Windows is not seeing the free space when i boot to the 98se install cd... and won't install. any advice?

dj_relentless · 02-26-2002, 07:26 PM

Windows won't see any files system that it chooses not to, when you say it 'was' ext3 what does that make it now?

voe · 02-26-2002, 07:31 PM

Well, it shows up as just "free space" but gnupart may not have chnged it to a fat system....could this be the problem or do win partitions have to be on first partition of first hd?

dj_relentless · 02-26-2002, 07:36 PM

If its still ext3 that'll be the issue..If the free space is its own partition you could format it to fat32..
For some reason whenever I formatted fat32 paritions using linux fdisk windows never detected it so I had to format all windows partitions using windows software..

voe · 02-26-2002, 07:45 PM

I just tried to change what windows was seing as the active partition and it said that only partitions on fixed disk 1 can be set as active

So it is possible to install windows on the second partition of the second harddrive?

dj_relentless · 02-26-2002, 07:49 PM

Well the mbr still has to be on the primary master I think, winxp and win2k don't like it (complain about multiple os's) but win98 is ok..