Re: Upgrade on partitioned hard drive

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From: Alex Nichol (alexn.mvpdts_at_ntlworld.delete.com)
Date: 02/19/04 

Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 10:54:46 +0000

Paul Vickers wrote:

>Does any one know whether the upgrade process from MS98SE
>to XP has a problem if the Windows is sharing the PC hard
>drive with another OS.
>I have a 20Gb hard drive, to MS98SE the C: drive is 10 Gb,
>the other 10Gb I have given to Linux.
>When I run the install of the upgrade to XP the copying of
>installation files works, the procedure then chooses to
>reboot the PC to install. It is here that the software
>claims the C: drive is corrupted and that it can not
>proceed.
>I have run a thorough SCandisk on the C: drive and it's
>fine. This leads me to think that the installation can't
>cope with the partition.

How was the linux installed? If it has installed part of its lilo or
grub into C: it may have damaged the way the boot files are handled.
Remedy to get the Win98 running again - and the update going OK - would
be to boot the 98 floppy and use
FDISK /MBR
SYS C:

You would then - after the event - need to reinstall the linux boot
manager or a third party one so as to get access to it. 

-- 
Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies)
Bournemouth, U.K.  Alexn@mvps.D8E8L.org (remove the D8 bit)
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