Mark Hull-Richter wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On >> Behalf Of John Summerfield >> Sent: Friday, March 16, 2007 12:54 PM >> To: CentOS mailing list >> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Changing from NTFS to ext3 >> >> It's not. It'll probably work, but perfect it isn't. >> >> You should repartition first, if only to get the partitions right. > Take >> a look at fdisk. >> > Foolish question: why would the partition table or partitions not be > "right" and what constitutes "right" in this context? There's a field called "type" You don't want it set to "mountable filesystem" - commonly called hpfs/ntfs. Use fdisk to list the partitions and see. Also, I think XP plays games with the space, reserves some outside partitions. -- Cheers John -- spambait 1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu Z1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu Please do not reply off-list