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Re: Gparted - Vostro Legacy/UEFI/IDE

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On 1/31/23 13:42, vjp2.at@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com wrote:
> 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

	The problem is that you worked too fast.
	GPartEd has two version of the NTFS.
	You might try the other one.  But read on.
> 
> 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
	
	What partitioning scheme are you using? the old MS
thing or UEFI.  Windows XP predates that latter system.

> 
> 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)

	Since you cannot start Windows at all use the GPartED
to create all your partitions 100 GB is the max I would allocate
to any MS-OS product.
	Might be easier to run Windows XP from a VirtualBox or other
virtual machine system.  Then you would not need to leave space
for it.  There is lots of information about this on the net
and I found some by searching on "running Windows XP on Virtual
box.  There seem to be some videos on doing so.  If I remember
correctly you want to run a DOS as well and there is information
there about that whether you want to run MS-DOS or FreeDOS.
> 
> Also Knoppix (Quantian) can't find the filesystem
> knoppix home=/dev/sda1/knoppix.img won't work either

	Well I don't know which version you are using but
I started with Knoppix 3.1 and current is 9.1 or even 9.2
if it has been released for general use.


> One wierd possibility - I burned the ISOs on DVDs
> Maybe they should be CD?

	They should be Flash Drives if your system can
boot from that.
	You have to turn off the Secure Boot in the BIOS to get
non-MS booting from most Linux systems.  Ubuntu, Red Hat and
others have paid MS for a Key to allow booting on the secure
system but not Knoppix, nor PCLinuxOS.
	DVDs are Ok but very slow.

> 
> I know - my flawed memory (of doing this a decade ago) is confusing me

	Not only that but you have not kept up with the technology
of the Linux systems.

	I  started with Mandriva about 17 years ago and it is now out of
business despite its convenience and ease.  I now use PCLinuxOS which
was/is based on the preceding system Mandrake and which had taken images
from the Mandriva before a bad business model drove it into bankruptcy
which is not uncommon with high tech commercial ventures.

	I dunno if you can see my e-mail address with whatever tool
you are using but I suggest that since you have gotten behind on
the tech that you find a nearby Linux Users Group which might afford
you more timely help than you can find on Usenet.

	Good luck
bliss - “Nearly any fool can use a GNU/Linux computer. Many do.”
  After all here I am...again..

-- 
bliss dash SF 4 ever at dslextreme dot com

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Gparted - Vostro Legacy/UEFI/IDE vjp2.at@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com - 2023-01-31 21:42 +0000
  Re: Gparted - Vostro Legacy/UEFI/IDE Marco Moock <mo01@posteo.de> - 2023-02-01 08:03 +0100
    Re: Gparted - Vostro Legacy/UEFI/IDE vjp2.at@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com - 2023-02-01 17:19 +0000
  Re: Gparted - Vostro Legacy/UEFI/IDE Bobbie Sellers <bliss@mouse-potato.com> - 2023-02-01 10:35 -0800
    Re: Gparted - Vostro Legacy/UEFI/IDE vjp2.at@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com - 2023-02-03 21:45 +0000
      Re: Gparted - Vostro Legacy/UEFI/IDE Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2023-02-03 18:39 -0500
        Re: Gparted - Vostro Legacy/UEFI/IDE Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2023-02-04 14:34 +0200
          Re: Gparted - Vostro Legacy/UEFI/IDE Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2023-02-04 18:06 -0500
            Re: Gparted - Vostro Legacy/UEFI/IDE Bobbie Sellers <bliss@mouse-potato.com> - 2023-02-04 20:34 -0800
              Re: Gparted - Vostro Legacy/UEFI/IDE Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2023-02-05 21:10 -0500
            Re: Gparted - Vostro Legacy/UEFI/IDE The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2023-02-05 08:34 +0000
              Re: Gparted - Vostro Legacy/UEFI/IDE Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2023-02-05 21:12 -0500
                Re: Gparted - Vostro Legacy/UEFI/IDE Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2023-02-06 04:34 +0000
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                Re: Gparted - Vostro Legacy/UEFI/IDE Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2023-02-06 18:18 +0000
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                Re: Gparted - Vostro Legacy/UEFI/IDE Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2023-02-09 00:18 -0500
                Re: Gparted - Vostro Legacy/UEFI/IDE Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> - 2023-02-09 17:06 +1000
                Re: Gparted - Vostro Legacy/UEFI/IDE Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2023-02-09 10:08 -0500
                Re: Gparted - Vostro Legacy/UEFI/IDE The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2023-02-09 11:31 +0000
                Re: Gparted - Vostro Legacy/UEFI/IDE Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2023-02-09 10:10 -0500
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  Re: Gparted - Vostro Legacy/UEFI/IDE Bobbie Sellers <bliss@mouse-potato.com> - 2023-02-06 14:00 -0800

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