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Subject: [ltp] [slightly OT] windows+linux coexistence
From: George Staikos <staikos () 0wned ! org>
Date: 2001-06-15 4:08:56
Message-ID: 01061500085600.01332 () thunk ! is ! 0wned ! org
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I just bought a new 20gb travelstar for my i series machine and I'm having
all kinds of problems getting windows to load on it. I tried creating the
partition table and installing windows first(before linux). After the
recovery stage, when it rebooted it gave me a Disk I/O error. I said "screw
it" and installed Mandrake on the disk. This went by with ease - no problems
at all. I've been using it for a few weeks now. Today I decided to try to
get Windows to go again. Basically the best I can do is get it to either a)
trash my partition table and not boot or b) immediately print "Disk I/O
error". I'm using the original recovery CD that came with the machine. Are
there any solutions for this? Is there anything I can do? I'm guessing that
the Win98 cd can't handle 20gb disks.
Quite honestly I would just like to get:
- reasonable DVD playing (something has regressed recently and now I get
20% skipped frames in xine - not good enough to watch a movie)
- specs for the easylaunch keys so I don't have to try to reverse engineer
the damned things.
(Yes IBM, you still haven't given us any specs on this.)
Thanks
--
George Staikos
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