Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!panix!.POSTED.panix1.panix.com!not-for-mail From: vjp2.at@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Gparted - Vostro Legacy/UEFI/IDE Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2023 21:42:39 -0000 (UTC) Organization: Samani Marions Panyaught NYC-11357-3436-287-USA Message-ID: Injection-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2023 21:42:39 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: reader2.panix.com; posting-host="panix1.panix.com:166.84.1.1"; logging-data="15161"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@panix.com" User-Agent: tin/2.6.0-20210823 ("Coleburn") (NetBSD/9.3 (amd64)) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:36854 It seems all three of my problems may be from this setting I made all 500GB (HD) into an NTFS partition (GParted was too fast in formatting - worried) bash fsck instead of fdisk worked fine - no errors the check disk in gparted menu didn't complain either But trying to install XP finds some CHKDSK error (tells me to chkdsk - gives me four hex numbers) But Windows Setup loads all the drivers and only blows when trying to start Windows itself Setting back from Legacy to UEFI gives "check media[failed]" This problem showed up when I moved the Win7 partiton (hopefully now gone - deleted partitions, reformatted) Also Knoppix (Quantian) can't find the filesystem knoppix home=/dev/sda1/knoppix.img won't work either One wierd possibility - I burned the ISOs on DVDs Maybe they should be CD? I know - my flawed memory (of doing this a decade ago) is confusing me -- Vasos Panagiotopoulos panix.com/~vjp2/vasos.htm ---{Nothing herein constitutes advice. Everything fully disclaimed.}---