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Hi, I'm Tracy, and I'm new here..... and at most everything.....which is probably why I'm having this little situation right now ^_^
Ok, so I had XP on my comp and decided I wanted to also have linux on my comp to learn how it worked. So I got Linux 8.0, partitioned my hard drive, and installed Linux. But then I couldn't get to windows, even thought I thought I should be able to dual boot, but there was no such way of doing so. I had a little help come in and we figured out it wasn't a Fat32 partition windows was on, and that linux wasn't compatible, or something like that, with non-fat32 partitons...of course
..... So now, unless there's a way to save the stuff I had on the windows partition, I'm starting over, which is ok, because there wasn't anything desperately important on it, but still, you know, I had it all ....mine.....
So now I have no clue what to do or start with and the only thing that I can get into is Linux and it's still very foreign to me, so it doesn't help much
I think I should probably make the new windows partition Fat32, so that I CAN install linux....right?
Can anyone give me hints....or gigantic clues....as to make this work?
Thanks ^_^
-Tracy
Ok, so I had XP on my comp and decided I wanted to also have linux on my comp to learn how it worked. So I got Linux 8.0, partitioned my hard drive, and installed Linux. But then I couldn't get to windows, even thought I thought I should be able to dual boot, but there was no such way of doing so. I had a little help come in and we figured out it wasn't a Fat32 partition windows was on, and that linux wasn't compatible, or something like that, with non-fat32 partitons...of course
So now I have no clue what to do or start with and the only thing that I can get into is Linux and it's still very foreign to me, so it doesn't help much
I think I should probably make the new windows partition Fat32, so that I CAN install linux....right?
Can anyone give me hints....or gigantic clues....as to make this work?
Thanks ^_^
-Tracy