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Re: [LUG] Partitioning Dual Boot

 

On Sunday 30 December 2007 16:10, Julian Hall wrote:


> Older than (I think) v8 won't work on NTFS drives.  If that's how you
> formatted the partition that's why it won't work :)

Yes you are right.  Thinking back it was my first spanking new laptop with XP, 
bought about 5/6 years ago.  I hadn't realised until later that it was on a 
NTFS partition.  Anyway, I wiped it and installed Mandrake instead, which 
worked out of the box.

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