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[Doubletwist <doubletwist AT spack.nu>]

Eric Sandalle wrote:

> I've had no problems with LILO+WinXP on my laptop (Dell), and on my main
> (a.k.a. gaming) machine, GRUB+WinXP works fine as well.  However, a friend
> of mine couldn't get either LILO _or_ GRUB to work on his laptop (Compaq),
> not sure if it had something to do with WinXP or not, but we're going to
> try again this semester.
>
> -One of Four
> a.k.a. sandalle
>
>  

Actually, I remember what the problem was now.
If I have WinXP on one partition, then Linux on the next it's fine if I 
use lilo in the MBR.

But I had a repeatable problem where if I had TWO WinXP NTFS partitions 
[one for the system the second for data], and then installed lilo in the 
MBR, it would totally hose the second NTFS partition.
Luckily I was able to recover the data with a wonderful program called 
Restorer 2000 Pro.
They saved my butt multiple times! [Thought I had screwed something up, 
re-installed XP with a second NTFS partition again, and AGAIN lilo hosed 
the second NTFS partition]

Anyway, don't know really what caused it. so now, I don't use a second 
NTFS partition.

DT