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Conquistador
03-22-2003, 08:08 PM
I am trying to install Partition Magic so that I can make a new partition on my Hard Drive and install Linux, but the installation stops and says:
The setup has detected that you are running Windows NT/2000.NET Server. The Install will now exit.
I am installing Mandrake 8.2, and I was wondering if anyone knows of a way to get around this problem or other partitioning software that won't make me lose my data.
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LAMA
03-23-2003, 12:00 PM
I heard that on the new editoion of mandrake it makes a partion for you

when you install it. Im not sure because I havent downloaded it yet.

Just puting together my new system and then Im installing it on this

old comp. But thats what I heard. Read the thread Windows & Linux

in the Softwear section.
[GF]Burke
03-23-2003, 12:35 PM
must be partition magic 7 in order to work for XP.

but yes, linux will do it for you.. during install.. you'll see it there.
neb1211
03-23-2003, 12:52 PM
that will distroy any data that was on that part of the hard drive though won't it.
capdavis
03-23-2003, 03:37 PM
that will distroy any data that was on that part of the hard drive though won't it.
It just make a new partition out of the left over space you have and resizes the windows one.. YEs some times it can be dangerous but you should worry. Just back up everything of value before you partition or install duel Operation systems. Espacially with linux.. Sometimes Windows likes to Take its old partition back in destroy linux.
neb1211
03-23-2003, 04:51 PM
Sometimes Windows likes to Take its old partition back in destroy linux.
yeah i know. I used to have red hat, mandrake, suse, and windows xp on my main computer but but don't anymore cuz i got tired of having to reinstall them all the time cuz xp didn't want to share so now i have linux on one of my other 4 computers
Conquistador
03-23-2003, 05:08 PM
Burke"]must be partition magic 7 in order to work for XP
I'm not running XP... I'm running 2000. It was version 8. I also downloaded the powerquest "volume manager" but the demo does nothing.
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capdavis
03-23-2003, 05:55 PM
Sometimes Windows likes to Take its old partition back in destroy linux.
yeah i know. I used to have red hat, mandrake, suse, and windows xp on my main computer but but don't anymore cuz i got tired of having to reinstall them all the time cuz xp didn't want to share so now i have linux on one of my other 4 computers
Yes.. ITs best to just try out linux on another crappy computer (oh say 233mhz 3gb hdd, cdrom, fdd, monitor, 32mb ram maybe 64) Cause NTFS based windows systems like to Consume Alien operating systems that it doesnt understand... Linux runs perfect partitions with Fat systems (3.1, 95, 98, me)
neb1211
03-23-2003, 07:48 PM
Yes.. ITs best to just try out linux on another crappy computer (oh say 233mhz 3gb hdd, cdrom, fdd, monitor, 32mb ram maybe 64)
None of my computers are really that crappy. The one that i have linux on has a amd duron 1300, 20 gb hdd and 128mb ram. That is the worst computer i have