(EDIT: My disks are slack 11, not 12!)

Hey everyone,
I got this new laptop with vista pre-installed, so I thought I'd try the dual-booting thing with it. I've done this before with Slack 10.2 and 98, so I thought it'd be ok.

The problem is the slackware disk partitioning software (fdisk and cfdisk both) don't seem to even recognize the windows partition. I know there is some issue with the new NFTS file system on Vista, but even when I added a blank (or ext3) partition from Windows, the slackware disk still does not see any partitions at all.

Anyone have any advice on how to deal with this? Thanks a lot!

More EDIT: Interestingly enough, I just got Ubuntu to install fine. However, Even now the slack install CD does not 'see' any partitions!

have you tried using Gparted, to format your partitions to ext3 , i don't know if you can do that from vista "still on xp". I recently added slack 12.0 to my multi boot test machine and i noticed it didn't show me all the partitions on the system. But it did pick up all the empty ext3 partitions.

Your Vista has only 'C' drive on it or it has 'D', 'E' etc?

Right now I have an ext3 partition, but Vista does not have it named. The slack disk still does not recognize it when it starts. I formatted it through Ubuntu LiveCD (which uses Gparted I think).

Actually, interestingly enough, it appears that Slack is seeing an empty, unnamed partition with a size of 650 MB (mounted at /dev/hda). I think this might be the recovery partition, which is the first thing on the HD. Second is Vista, third is now Ubuntu, forth is swap. So, is it possible that the other partitions are being mounted somewhere else? I tried /hda2, /hdb etc with no luck.

Problem solved guys. Slack mounted the drive at sda1,2,3, etc... I thought I checked them, maybe something actually changed from 11 to 12, but in any case, problem solved, thanks for your attention!