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I pulled a hdd off a machine to be the primary drive on a windows box (2k or 98)...
It was running reiserfs before, and is a 40gb, with only 1 partition.
My first attempts failed: I would get through the NT setup section and copy the files over ... but when windows got to the "now rebooting" first reboot section, it'd always not boot, with a "error loading operating system" error.
I had identical results with 98, but installing gentoo works fine.
Some of the things i tried during the course of the many windows attempts:
1. fdisk /mbr
2. dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=2048 count=10000
3. completely nuking the drive each time and setting up the partitions inside the installer programs
4. nuking the partitions from win98 cdrom boot dos fdisk, and from linux fdisk
5. Various partitioning sizes and such.
Any thoughts why linux works first try, (lilo), and windows can't install?
n8
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