Linux Install on NTFS?
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Linux Install on NTFS?
Hey I have a friend who really wants to install Linux on his laptop. Problem is he has about 14 kbs of bad sector. He does not want to lose his windows installation but can not partition the drive... We were wondering if there is a way to install a linux distro preferably suse along side windows on the same ntfs partition. Or are we just shooting for the moon?
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Well they can't dual boot or anything if they are on the same partition, but you can install it virtually. You can either use VMware or virtualbox, I recommend the second one since it's completely free and needs no registration and crap. Also some distros have the option to be installed on windows (never tried that though, but I know Ubuntu can).
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hm, I am not aware of distros that run on NTFS, and even if it can be done (Ubuntu, as cats said) I wouldn't recommend it...NTFS support for Linux works already pretty good (ntfs-3g) but it is still far away from being really stable.
so I recommend to defrag the HDD and then resize the partition/create a new one for Linux with gparted for example.
so I recommend to defrag the HDD and then resize the partition/create a new one for Linux with gparted for example.
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well, the link to gparted I posted above is the one to the live distro. gparted just the graphical (Gnome) interface of parted, which is the command line HDD tool of pretty any Linux distribution...
the chances resizing works are much better with the live distro than with any app running on Windows itself...
the chances resizing works are much better with the live distro than with any app running on Windows itself...
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Well yeah but I was wondering if he consoled it and added a -f to force it just to the left of the bad sector for windows then make the ext3 just on the right of it. Leaveing about 1-2 mbs unpartitioned where the bad sector is.
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go to your drive under my computer, and click on properties. then run like the disk check or whatever the hell its called lol. (i havent used windows in a long time) one of them will have the option to recover ruined sectors in the HDD. i myself wouldnt like to run linux on NTFS due to the fact that its really crappy and has to be defragged unlike EXT-3
rm -rf * /
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he means page file (its called swap in linux). when your computer runs out of ram, it has to store the data somewhere so it stores it in a spot on your harddrive called page file. but ya, u can usually disable it by opening my computer right clicking on your harddrive and from there u can usually find page file options.
rm -rf * /