Hi, im having serious problems installing knoppix...
Im running Windows XP Home Ed. Sp2, on a 60GB Hd with 2 partitions(C and D)
What i did was run PQ Partition Magic 8.0, created and 8 GB Linux Partition(Ext2) and a 500 MB Swap Partition...all these between C and D... and yes i did defrag both Partitions(C, D) before this...
So after this i booted with the knoppix 3.9 live cd, and after figuring out with help of google how to install the damn thing on the HD i runned the
Knx2hd command on the root shell, i chose debian install and the Ext3 journal something support and to install GRUB on the root partition, wich i tought was the best thing to do after reading some forums and since i have a Win XP install that i didnt want to mess with
SO after the install wich was very strange because it took more than 5-6 hours and watching the root shell showing all the files being installed with a I/O error... i did eventually think that nothing was being installed because of this!
So after the reboot it didnt show the grub loader or any option to load linux or win, so again after some google i downloaded bootpart, wich is a program that adds another OS to the boot.ini or ntldr... and when i clicked the linux option i got the message that this partition(the one with the linux) didnt have any OS... so i went back to windows and checked if the linux partition had something on it and it id(2 gb of used space),
Now what i did was set this linux partition active and rebooted, voila, it loaded the grub and after that knoppix, i rebooted again and loaded win from GRUB to check if everything was ok... and it wasnt, im getting a blue screen after the windows loading screen!
So i booted with a windows cd , typed r and typed fixmbr...and now nothing works, i still get the blue screen and i dont even get to the GRUB Bootloader...
Im beggining to regret installing this linux thing, i have all my life in the windows partition.. i want my windows back or have both OS work...what should i do? Please HElp
PLease help...