<div dir="auto">I have similar notebook and keep the Windows partition. There is still tools out there that require windows.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Forscan for example is free Ford diagnostic tool.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">But on other hand I have two more linux partitions on it plus swap.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">My Antix linux mounts win partitions happily </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jan 28, 2023, 16:25 Bob Toxen via Ale <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org">ale@ale.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">First, proceed with extreme caution. It is very easy to trash a file system if<br>
you make a mistake. Your questions suggest that you are not experienced with<br>
system administration to seek out someone who is.<br>
<br>
The partition table stores whatevery file type you select, such as NTFS or Linux, as<br>
a 1 byte value. The actual data stored in that partition (if any) may be of any type you<br>
(or the manufacturer) wrote to it.<br>
<br>
Most actual partition types indicate the actual type in the first few bytes of that partition's data<br>
(not to be confused what is in the partition table).<br>
<br>
The fdisk program tells you what is in the partition table and can be used to change that<br>
to what actually corresponds to what is in the partition.<br>
<br>
The parted program says what actually is in the partition. Clearly that is ext4.<br>
You could use fdisk (carefully!) to change the partition table to Linux to correspond<br>
to what actually is in the partition.<br>
<br>
<br>
If said partition is /dev/sda1 you can confirm the actual data is an ext4 file system<br>
with the following command which will read the first few byes of the partition<br>
(not the partition table) to determine the type of file system<br>
<br>
file - < /dev/sda1<br>
<br>
which should say<br>
<br>
/dev/stdin: Linux rev 1.0 ext4 filesystem data (needs journal recovery) (extents) (large files) (huge files)<br>
<br>
You might also do the following to check if the file system is ok or corrupted but probably should<br>
do control-C if it wants to make any corrections. In that case get someone who knows file systems.<br>
<br>
fsck -f /dev/sda1<br>
<br>
<br>
Be careful and good luck,<br>
<br>
Bob<br>
<br>
On Sat, Jan 28, 2023 at 03:56:35PM -0500, Narahari Lakshminarayana via Ale wrote:<br>
> Friends:<br>
> Thank you for your time and attention in advance.<br>
> <br>
> I finally found my Samsung N120 netbook (laptop) that runs Windows XP.<br>
> I want to use this so I will be able to work on my Samsung tablet aka dont<br>
> want to lose the XP on this. (dont know how to do connect to Android tablet<br>
> from Linux)<br>
> <br>
> I wanted to partition the disk to 32GB for Win XP and the remaining 92 GB<br>
> for Linux. I tried to partition and I'm not sure what is happening here.<br>
> <br>
> fdisk says it has a partition of type NTFS.<br>
> <a href="https://imgur.com/RboROyO" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://imgur.com/RboROyO</a><br>
> <br>
> parted says it has ext4<br>
> <a href="https://imgur.com/0ymhp6o" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://imgur.com/0ymhp6o</a><br>
> <br>
> mount command does not allow me to mount it as NTFS<br>
> <a href="https://imgur.com/wxSp5dJ" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://imgur.com/wxSp5dJ</a><br>
> <br>
> Does this mean I lost the partition and the XP installation is gone or I<br>
> still have hope ?<br>
> <br>
> Warm Regards<br>
> -Narahari<br>
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