Partition Error!

[ThePentiumGuy]

Hey guys,

 

I was going to set up a LAMP server (to turn my PC into a linux server, but make it dual boot so to still have windows on it)

 

My friend gave me this proggie called Partition Magic so that i can resize my windows partition. There was 8 gb left, and i made 6 gb of room for my linux partition.

 

It told me to reboot to start. So it went into dos mode atuomatically and started partitioning..etc.

 

*sighs*

 

next it gave me an error message: Batch Error. Please press any key to reboot.

 

so i thought it would fix it after the next reboot so i hit a key.

 

When i restarted - the WindowsXP loading screen came up, and when taht finished loading - the stupid thing gave a blue screen (for less than a millisecond so i couldn't read it) and restarted.

 

I tried safe mode, i tried Normal mode, i tried Last known good confguration.. NOTHING WORKED! it just keeps restarting. Please keep in mind tha ti want both windows and linux on the computer and i want my files "Safe"

 

is there anything i can do?

 

- The Pentium Guy

[ThePentiumGuy]

Heh, I guess i'm damn lucky that was an old machine :). I just reinatalled XP ;).

[irasmith]

I have used a couple of those partition type softwares and I've never had much luck with them. Not saying they aren't any good, it is just sometimes it can be a bit tricky to handle.

 

Something I have recently discovered, but have not actually tried it yet, is using Virtual PC to do the type of thing you are looking at, running Linux alongside of XP. I don't have the bookmark here, but there is actually a place on one of the MS sites describing how to accomplish the task with Virtual PC. I'll have to look the bookmark up when I get to work and let you know what it is. I'm rather interested in it because I hope to do the same thing sometime in the not too distant future here on my XP Pro machine at home.