[Discuss] gparted problems

[Adam Parkin]

R. McFarlane wrote:
>         I experienced that using partimage. When restoring, it would 
> only restore to the same size. I had to use parted to resize the 
> partition after the restore.

Right!  That was it, it was partimage I had used (must be getting older, 
my memory isn't as good as it used to be) =;->

>         The install crashes when it goes through the final install 
> phase. Blue screen with fastfat.sys. My searches have turned up nothing 
> so far. I suspect it has something to do with the 250GB drive.

Hmm, shot in the dark, but are you sure you BIOS can handle the large 
drive?  Some BIOS's cannot handle drives larger than (I think) 127 GB.

>         I am using FAT32 as it is easily writable from any OS I use.

Fair enough, but I would still go with NTFS for the Windows boot 
partition, and then create a FAT32 partition for moving stuff back/forth 
between OS's. =8-p  Agree to disagree I suppose.
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Adam Parkin
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