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IFMU
10-20-2002, 08:12 PM
Ok folks heres the deal.
I have
Tyan 2466 board
2 x 1.3 Durons
256 ECC Reg Mem
iWill ata66 side raid card

Now, I have a 13g hdd with XP installed. The RAID has been striped and has info on there in NTFS Formatting.

Next, I unplugged the XP Hdd and added in a 3g hdd.
On there I installed Linux RH 7.3 (Valhalla).
During the install of RH I told it to leave the RAID Hard drives alone. Which, from what I could tell, it did.
Now, I unplug the 3g RH Drive and plugged in the 13g XP hdd. Now, in here the RAID is apparantely damaged or something?!
When I go into the Admin control and disk management it reads them as a 40g. Which is correct, but says that its "Unallocated".
Any idea what the deal with this is?
I put this here since it was Linux that seems to messed with it somehow?
Now, anyone know what could be?!
Keep in mind, nothing was installed to it within Linux, hell, nothing was even done with it inside Linux. Couldnt get that far, was too busy just tryin to get the nic to work... (Finally fixed, no clue how!~!)

IFMU
10-20-2002, 08:17 PM
Was just thinking... could it be that Linux fubared my boot record somehow? or something? Ive got the XP hdd re-installed. And nothing else was messed.

JBELL
10-20-2002, 08:27 PM
do this install 3gb with linux while XP is still attached asmaster drive....

yes your MBR is fuggered

IFMU
10-20-2002, 08:28 PM
No, the XP Drive was disconnected.