Hi Niaga

The first thing to do is to defrag your windows drive, then back up your data.

Disconnect the SATA drive, and instal linux aloowing Suse to make room for itself on the IDE Drive, then reconnect your Sata Drive, use the Sata for storage.

Mad Malc

I am hoping this is the right place to discuss problems dual booting Suse 9.3 with Windows XP.

Due to problems with my hard disk I have had to purchase a new hard disk and am in the process of reinstalling both operating systems. previously I had XP and Suse 9.3 running with no problems on a Western Digital 120Gb disk. The new disk is a Seagate barracuda 200GB but due to problems with the Bios it is only seen as a 137Gb disk

I reinstalled XP and having got that running satisfactorily, I then used Partition Magic to create linux partitions and installed Suse 9.3 with no problems. However the system now refuses to reboot Windows XP. It loads the initial Windows XP screen then goes to a screen saying AUTOCHK not able to run skipping then the system shuts down with an error message. Suse 9.3 still boots with no problems.

Can anyone offer any advice/ solutions. There is a post on the Suse support site

http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2004/0...booting91.html

which seems to talk about similar problems although it says it only relates to Suse 9.1. Can anyone advise if the same problem persists in later versions.

Thanks in anticipation

Fletch

Hey Fletch, Here's a suggestion, since you were able to load win XP just fine let it take the entire HD(it should read the 200Gb, then if you load suse 9.x (3) in your case, yast will allow you to partition the HD without loosing any space , because it will only shrink the win partition, I did my install by ftp and I have a 250Gb with no "lost/missing" OS/room on HD, as far as the other issue try reinstalling from scratch, see if that works, I do recommend doing the ftp install, but it does take a while.
Hope this helps
Jose

Hi,

I had this problem with the older versions of SUSE. Is there still a problem with using SUSE together with XP in the newer versions of SUSE such as 9.3, or the Beta version 10.0?

I am still using an older version of SUSE and want to upgrade to one of the new distributions , such as 9.3, or 10.0.

Has anyone been able to use 9.3, or 10.0 with XP? I am not experienced with installation, and would probably not be able to perform all of the complicated steps mentioned to install both XP and SUSE.

Thanks!

afaik you can use any operating system with XP (except OS like Mac OS, but that's not because of XP, but because of your hardware). I installed Suse 9.2, and now it's upgraded to 9.3, and I don't have any problems at all

Sorry for the long delay.
Been trying to dual boot Suse for weeks. I had to give up. And then I ran across this super EASY distro that is amazingly easy to partition and install. It also takes care of all device driver setups. PCLinuxOS. You can run it Live for awhile to see if your hardware works with it first. All my stuff worked. ALL MY STUFF WORKED. Had to repeat that! I know it's a suse thread. It's what happened. Tried to do a way too hard thing at my level.

I was going to give up on Linux for good until this distro popped up. I LOVE it, so much in fact that I actually WANT to learn command line. Bought a command line book and have already learned a lot.

If your hardware is a lot older it might not work is what I heard, and the same with trying to dual boot with an older Win$ might be harder to mess with. Don't know for sure. Dual boot set up with two types of hard drives is difficult with Suse if you don't know any Linux. My hardware didn't like Suse AT ALL.

Thank-you very much for your post.

I had not heard of the program that you mentioned.

I will try it after I install a newer version of SUSE!

i think i might be having a similar problem,
i tried to set up a dual winxp/suse system buy
my winxo be come unbootable after the installaiton of suse

i started a threat, please take a look
thanks
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=359503

I have just finished the dual boot installation of WinXP and Suse 9.1 except that neither of them boot.
All that appears on the screen is "GRUB" and the computer just hangs. I can force a boot up on the linux partition via the install CD, but the win partition is hiding from me.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Have you tried this.

To fix the boot loader and other things, boot from the SuSE CD and select
Installation
then select Repair installed system
Select Automatic Repair and sit back.....
It will repair or replace bootloader if there is a problem
Way easier than fixing GRUB with a text editor!

Thanks for the reply...

I didnt try that. I re-installed suse again completely and then the same problem occured.

I have installed FreeBSD at the moment because I knew that i could dual boot sucessfully with it so that I could get back into windows and find out more on the internet.

I have found other incedences of this on the net, but I have not found an answer.

I also tried manually re-installing GRUB from the settings panel in Suse, but the problem does not seem to go away

two questions

1
for some reason i needed to enter a recovery password when i boot with suse install cd
i tried all the pass word i knew, but it did not want to accept them
help please

2
will suse 10 fix the xp dual boot problem?

i hope so, i love suse i want to use it. but i am not ready to let winxp go for now.

rekall ref ur #130:

The same thing happened to me on two of my systems, both compaq. However, it was with SuSE 9.2 could have been 9.3. I think the problem is with GRUB/SuSE install and file sys (read NTFS) or disk geometry incompatability. Knoppix 3.9 will boot up and run on them in command line mode. Other than . . . wellcome to the club . . . . . . I haven't been able to solve or get closer to the problem. SuSE/Novel should be on top of it, however the apparent current trend is that SuSE is for cutting edge only and I believe their web site states that they only support a six month cycle. One of the reasons I'm looking for a different issue, maybe Debian.
What's ya think?

As an added note on the dual-boot theme I picked up info from:
Thread: Dual Boot Linspire and Windows XP
eagles-lair 11-1--2004 post #13

Qt-PartEd comes on the Knoppix LiveCD and does a good job.
However, be careful if you use Qt-PartEd. A very experienced
network administrator friend of mind warned me that sometimes
using non-Microsoft tools will result in a partition failing to
be recognised correctly by Microsoft Windows. That even applies
to Partition Magic, and I have been caught that way.

This could very well cause some bad problems, how much, I don't know.
paul_e_t