Re: Thinkpad Saga Continues Hi Sean and all, That's a really good question!<smile> Yes, Fedora did notice my Windows partition. The problem was that the way that Lenovo made the partitions, according to my Linux instructor, meant that we had to break the existing partitions before installing Linux and then fix grub to recognize what we had done. The computer was broken into one 30 gigabyte partition and another 90 GB partition. Since there wasn't enough room on the smaller partition, we had to use the bigger one in order to put Linux on one 45 GB partition and Windows on the other 45 GB partion we then made. this meant that we had to temporarily remove Windows to build the new partitions. Then when I tried to run the XP installer, either the newer hardware on the Thinkpad wasn't recognized, and also, Windows wouldn't even recognize that I had a Linux partition at all. I really don't know why we couldn't find another way to do this other than using a utility to re-partition the disk before installing. I'm not knowledgeable enough to know if we could have done it better.<smile> but my instructor said we had to breakt the big partition in half so that Windows had half and Linux had half. That part confused me a little because I didn't understand why he couldn't break up the partition right there and then, and save my Windows installation,but he said no, so we started by breaking up the big partition with the Fedora installer and then reinstalling Windows. Here is where things got weird and now we're rebuilding the system. If nothing else, it's a learning experience.<smile> Beth
