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Well im very close to being able to install dual boot vista and backtrack2. The problem is my laptop has another partition called compaq diagnostics and this stops me making ...
  1. 03-12-2007 #1
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    dual boot backtrack and vista

    Well im very close to being able to install dual boot vista and backtrack2.

    The problem is my laptop has another partition called compaq diagnostics and this stops me making the 3rd partition for backtrack.

    Can i do backtrack/vista dual boot if backtrack has two partitions or are there any ways round this?

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    When changing size of ntfs windows partition to make free space for the backtrack partition it changes the windows partition to fat32 after committing, why is this?

    Im using QTParted in backtrack2 to do this.
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    When changing size of ntfs windows partition to make free space for the backtrack partition it changes the windows partition to fat32 after committing, why is this?
    this should not happen. is Windows booting up now? download GParted LiveCD and resize partitions with it.
    Can i do backtrack/vista dual boot if backtrack has two partitions or are there any ways round this?
    its not possible to create more than 4 Primary Partitions. Create an Extended Partition and create Logical Partitions in it.
    It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
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    Okay actually got over this problem now.

    I need to install grub package to the boot partition in any way possible.

    I have put it on USB and tried to install it that way, although i dont know the command. Any ideas what it might be?

    Also tried wget although cannot get a connection to the internet even though its detected the wireless/lan card.

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