Partition Magic help

[JeffPr]

I have a new hard drive that I want to put windows XP and Red hat linux 9 on and I have partition magic to do this. I install windows XP first using the option "install another operating system" that partition magic has and everything works fine. So next time I want to install linux, so I create a new linux ext3 partition as well as a swap partition using partition magic and when I install red hat linux, everything works fine. Please not that I do not use disk druid for anything, I just use the partitions that I create with partition magic.

Next time I load partition magic it the hard drive with windows XP and Linux is supposed to be on is highlighted in yellow and all it says is "bad", even though the OS are both there, I just can't use partition magic to manipulate the hard drive until I format it completely, which bring me back to square 1. I have no idea what the problem is, do I need to install linux first or something? Also, what does it mean when it says that an OS may not be bootable if it is install past the 1024 sector (or cylinder or head, can't remember exactly which one it is)? I ask because I have had operating systems at the end of my 80 gb hard drive that would boot fine and they are way past the 1024 mark.

Do you think your friend could feed my cat? Heisenberg wasn't sure. ~ Erwin Schrodinger talking of his revolutionary paradox

 

[JeffPr]

anybody have any suggestions?

Do you think your friend could feed my cat? Heisenberg wasn't sure. ~ Erwin Schrodinger talking of his revolutionary paradox

 

[KimLeece]

Make a boot floppy disk from Partition magic (2 floppies). Boot from the floppies and run PM from there. It should solve the problem.

Kim.

'Everybody is ignorant - only on different subjects.'
Will Rogers.

 

[Houston1981]

I might be wrong but doesn't Anaconda?(the red hat installer) do all of this automatically?

OK say you use partition magic to create a single windows partition that doesn't take up the full harddrive, and install XP to it, when you install redhat isn't there an option to create the linux partition with the remaining space(or somthing similar?) or at least to do it "semi-manually" using the GUI partition utils in the instalation?

I can't exactly remember haven't installed linux for a while.

 

[JeffPr]

I don't know how to explain the problem anymore, when I use disk druid to make the partition, partition magic doesn't like this at all and it gives the the error "bad" sector for my whole hard drive because linux is using a different drive geometry to make the partitions than PM uses. I don't know what is going on, partition magic says that drive geometrys are different for linux and Windows XP even though that program made the partitions so I don't know how it would use a different drive geometry. PM also doesn't like the swap partition that I make either, even though I use that program to make it, all I keep getting is the "bad" hard drive error when I load PM. I guess I will try again, it just gets annoying because it takes a few hours to get both OS systems installed and then just to have them not be accessible when everything is done gets annoying.

Do you think your friend could feed my cat? Heisenberg wasn't sure. ~ Erwin Schrodinger talking of his revolutionary paradox