Cambrant Posted June 4, 2004 Report Share Posted June 4, 2004 Hello. First off, I'm new here and this seems like a nice place to discuss the problems we all have daily :)I currently have a perfected Linux installation on my workstation which I am very happy with, but I need WinXP for some applications to run. Since my primary partitions are sort of used up with Linux, I would like to install Win XP on my 7th, non-primary partition. Someone said that this would work, so I created a FAT32-partition in my empty space and ran the installation-CD. Once I got to paritioning, it couldn't recognize the partition I created with Linux cfdisk. I just deleted that parition and created a new one, but then it said something like "Windows needs space on a partition of your hard drive but it cannot find any. Please remove a partition to install Windows XP"Since I don't want to remove anything from my computer, this is very frustrating. Windows 98 could probably cope with this configuration, right? Is there any way of installing Win XP like this, or should I just forget about it? I'd be really grateful for any help possible. Thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted June 4, 2004 Report Share Posted June 4, 2004 Hello and welcome to the forum :) I can't answer you question myself but there are Linux experts (and XP XPerts) here who will be along soon and I'm pretty sure they will be able to sort things out for you. :welcome: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted June 4, 2004 Report Share Posted June 4, 2004 WELCOME to the forum. Just have a little patience, the experts all sleep late. Hang around and use the rest of the forum as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted June 4, 2004 Report Share Posted June 4, 2004 Hello. First off, I'm new here and this seems like a nice place to discuss the problems we all have daily :)I currently have a perfected Linux installation on my workstation which I am very happy with, but I need WinXP for some applications to run. Since my primary partitions are sort of used up with Linux, I would like to install Win XP on my 7th, non-primary partition. Someone said that this would work, so I created a FAT32-partition in my empty space and ran the installation-CD. Once I got to paritioning, it couldn't recognize the partition I created with Linux cfdisk. I just deleted that parition and created a new one, but then it said something like "Windows needs space on a partition of your hard drive but it cannot find any. Please remove a partition to install Windows XP"Since I don't want to remove anything from my computer, this is very frustrating. Windows 98 could probably cope with this configuration, right? Is there any way of installing Win XP like this, or should I just forget about it? I'd be really grateful for any help possible. Thank you.Not sure...How many primary partitions do you actually have?In Linux make the extra space, free sapce...XP might be able to make a partition out of it.There are apps in Linux that can allow Windows to be installed. [i think and i've not used them]Also if you could install XP to a non-primary your Linux would then not be bootable as XP will overwrite the MBR. EDIT: You would from a boot floppyEver thought of a new [second, third] hard drive? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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