I am running RPM 2.44, on a HP laptop, with AMD CPU. I am having issues booting up some OSes when I use the Text 25x80 interface. I start with the following...
Ok, here is my situation. I have a 160gb SATA drive and 10 different copies of XP that I would like to put on it (Pro, Home, Tablet, different driver and...
... First thing first, investigate what those 7.5GiB are for (the rest is the difference between 67+7.5 GiB=74.5GiB, as measured by MS, and 80GB which is the...
... Please have a look at the archives of this group. I am not sure (and since I do not actually run such a setup, I cannot help more), but I feel the textmode...
... Text boot manager is likely to be incompatible with xp. See the other thread. ... Hmmm, from what I recall naming the partitions was something which have ...
I installed and resized my partition so I could install Solaris 10 it rebooted and Partman came up again I tried to reinstall XP no good. Just kept comming...
Am very interested in what RPM is supposed to be capable of. However, when installing it, there is a reference to using floppy disks. My Packard Bell PC has...
Hi All; I upgraded my HD to 80GB and I'm using it as HD1 with my system installed on it and Boot Manager in the last cylinder. I want to use all of my old 40GB...
Hi i have an acer aspire which came pre loaded with Vista home basic. My problem is that as i play online games i found some games still not supporting Vista. ...
When PC suppliers started including the Restore "CD" on a hidden partition instead of on physical CDs, there was a lot of shouting about what would happen if...
Oh, one rider to me earlier post. If you want to BUY a Vista OS, you will only need that! But it is kind of expensive and the European version of Vista is...
... However, ... Yes. Make yourself a bootable CD (Google that if you don't know how) and put PART.EXE on it (and anything else you might need). But as you may...
Sorry for the late reply, but it seems the list manager was down for a few days. normmareeba asked ... Doing so causes no harm except a very light loss of...
... Hello... This is not reply to the post, since I do not have that problem myself, nor I do have the experience, BUT - it is one more question for ...
Hello... This is not reply to the post, since I do not have that problem myself, nor I do have the experience, BUT - it is one more question for "britonusa": ...
... basic. ... prompted ... vista ... had ... with ... free ... pre- ... afresh ... Hi There I don't think this is too much of a problem. as you have already...
I want to install Win98 and Linux on a old system with 20GB meant for backup. I am getting some RED entries, but can't understand why ? Pri1 : Fat32 A...
Thanx all, Or those who thought on a way that could help me. I have solved the problem. 1. Get WinHex from http://www.x-ways.net 2. Replace all F7FFFF0F to...
Hello all, After searching google I came upon this. http://www.trombettworks.com/multi-boot.htm ... "On the contrary there is no minimum size when shrinking a...
The main problem is that you've taken minimalism to a new level. So, with the little information that avails us, you get the result of one free guess. Anything...
In the readme files, you will find there are some reasons why the partitions appear red. It is usually because RPM tries to makes sense of the partitions you...
If I remember correctly, Mikhael Ranish advises not to use RPM to resize. While I still use RPM exclusively to set partition sizes and partitions, for...
... As Dermot said, you are a bit too terse. Anyway, my free guess is that one (or both) of your FAT32 volumes references disk 128 in its boot records, and the...
to be or not to be?:-) Sorry, this is not about PM but since there are "Hard drive specialists" reading this forrum, I'd like to ask a question. I've read in...
I wouldn't consider myself a "hard drive specialist" but I have played around with file systems when dual booting, etc. From what I can tell, FAT32 is a better...
Hi John, Number one rule : "If it is not broken , don't fix it " Defrag your Laptop . religiously "reason why I SHOULD NOT abandon FAT32" : I have seen...
... There's absolutely no reason to keep with FAT32, unless you need to access your data from Windows 9x/ME (Linux recently gained a fairly good NTFS driver...
I have recently converted NTFS -> FAT32 on a new notebook using 'Paragon Partition Manager 7.0' without problems. It offers the other direction too and I think...
... The question doesn't need a hard drive specialist :) ... yup. its "convert" ... Its safe enough. the xp installer certainly used to install to fat, then...
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