Stupid line breaks.. maybe LJ will format them out like they screwed over my WC table..
Sooooo here we are trying to work our way through chinese windows....wait,
let me go back a bit. Chen had told me I had to install Linux onto a
second partition of this computer.. and that I should keep the version of
Chinese Windows that was already installed on it. So things were going
along nicly. Linux had chopped the drive into nice little pieces and
installed itself on one of them. The catch was when the computer booted
up, we only had the choice of booting between 'Linux' and umm 'Linux'
(which is the same thing and NOT chinese windows for those of you who
didn't notice) Soooo I decided to mess around with that partition table a
bit more, fiddle with that... screw with this... things were generally
getting me no where. Well.. things were generally getting me stuff like
"BIOS Error: Invalid Partition Table" but I managed to get myself back to
the point where things were getting me no where. I ended up popping into
chiense windows to try and see if I could fix it from that side rather than
the Linux side (don't you all laugh at once, it almost worked!). For those
of you who don't know me too well, no... I don't speak chinese.. thus
chinese windows was a bit confusing. Luckily I had a version of english
windows right near by that I could use for comparison when I got to
something I wasn't sure on, so all was good. Me and my buddy Curtis had
sucessfully found away into Admin Tools (ooh goodie now and have no idea
what anything says AND I can really cause some damage) and were all set to
map the partitions so windows could boot them. We just have to give them
drive letters. So I go and click on one of the drives. "Now select the
third option for properties" curtis advised from his seat at the english
windows computer. He was doing the same thing along with me on his machine
so I wouldn't screw anything up. The only problem was...for the next
step.. he had a normal windows partition and I had a funky linux one so I
repsond 'That one is greyed out'. We compair and notice that I have fewer
options. So we decided to guess, I mean we knew we could renamed the
*DRIVE* somehow, so we consulted the shortcuts and tried the one for (D).
A message box pops up and says 'CHINESE' and gives us the options of
'CHINESE (Y)' and 'CHINESE (N)'. We were pretty sure we wanted to rename
this drive so we went weith Y. Ummm I didn't need that partition anyway.
let me go back a bit. Chen had told me I had to install Linux onto a
second partition of this computer.. and that I should keep the version of
Chinese Windows that was already installed on it. So things were going
along nicly. Linux had chopped the drive into nice little pieces and
installed itself on one of them. The catch was when the computer booted
up, we only had the choice of booting between 'Linux' and umm 'Linux'
(which is the same thing and NOT chinese windows for those of you who
didn't notice) Soooo I decided to mess around with that partition table a
bit more, fiddle with that... screw with this... things were generally
getting me no where. Well.. things were generally getting me stuff like
"BIOS Error: Invalid Partition Table" but I managed to get myself back to
the point where things were getting me no where. I ended up popping into
chiense windows to try and see if I could fix it from that side rather than
the Linux side (don't you all laugh at once, it almost worked!). For those
of you who don't know me too well, no... I don't speak chinese.. thus
chinese windows was a bit confusing. Luckily I had a version of english
windows right near by that I could use for comparison when I got to
something I wasn't sure on, so all was good. Me and my buddy Curtis had
sucessfully found away into Admin Tools (ooh goodie now and have no idea
what anything says AND I can really cause some damage) and were all set to
map the partitions so windows could boot them. We just have to give them
drive letters. So I go and click on one of the drives. "Now select the
third option for properties" curtis advised from his seat at the english
windows computer. He was doing the same thing along with me on his machine
so I wouldn't screw anything up. The only problem was...for the next
step.. he had a normal windows partition and I had a funky linux one so I
repsond 'That one is greyed out'. We compair and notice that I have fewer
options. So we decided to guess, I mean we knew we could renamed the
*DRIVE* somehow, so we consulted the shortcuts and tried the one for (D).
A message box pops up and says 'CHINESE' and gives us the options of
'CHINESE (Y)' and 'CHINESE (N)'. We were pretty sure we wanted to rename
this drive so we went weith Y. Ummm I didn't need that partition anyway.