ardyandkari Posted July 19, 2008 Share Posted July 19, 2008 hello, as you already know, i am trying to remove partition on toshiba satellite a305-s6858 laptop... it has windows vista on it and the owner doesn't want vista. they want xp. tried to use multiple versions of linux (dsl, ubuntu, old version of ubuntu, slax) to fdisk /dev/hda. nothing will do it. the closest that i got was with slax. i could boot into terminal and do fdisk, but it wont write the part. if anyone has any ideas why, or any ideas on how to do this they would be much appreciated. thanks a lot. ardy Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/115596-trying-to-remove-partition-on-toshiba-satellite-a305-s6858-laptop/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
corbin Posted July 19, 2008 Share Posted July 19, 2008 Couldn't you just go to install XP and install it over the Vista partition? Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/115596-trying-to-remove-partition-on-toshiba-satellite-a305-s6858-laptop/#findComment-594259 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ardyandkari Posted July 19, 2008 Author Share Posted July 19, 2008 yea...stupid me... forgot that xp and vista have COMPLETELY diffrent filesystems...tried that and xp cannot find a hdd. going to do some research on the laptop and find out why. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/115596-trying-to-remove-partition-on-toshiba-satellite-a305-s6858-laptop/#findComment-594303 Share on other sites More sharing options...
corbin Posted July 20, 2008 Share Posted July 20, 2008 Uhhh, is Vista not installed on a NTFS partition? Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/115596-trying-to-remove-partition-on-toshiba-satellite-a305-s6858-laptop/#findComment-594593 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ardyandkari Posted July 20, 2008 Author Share Posted July 20, 2008 as far as i know, no... look here also, if they did both use ntfs, wouldnt windows vista come in and say, "You have a newer version of windows here buddy, dont mess with it!" that's all that i got when i was trying to install 2000 over xp when xp first came out...(didnt like the bugs, annoyed that it was basically a pretty and pretty unstable version of 2000) had to find a 3.5" dos disk and format from that... dealing with the question that i had, i am going to give the laptop back and tell her to take it back to best buy or wherever she got it from and have them deal with it. too much headache for me to deal with for free. (family) thanks again. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/115596-trying-to-remove-partition-on-toshiba-satellite-a305-s6858-laptop/#findComment-594694 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel0 Posted July 20, 2008 Share Posted July 20, 2008 Vista uses NTFS. Also, the Vista installer gives you a partition manager. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/115596-trying-to-remove-partition-on-toshiba-satellite-a305-s6858-laptop/#findComment-594704 Share on other sites More sharing options...
wildteen88 Posted July 20, 2008 Share Posted July 20, 2008 You'll have to remove Vista first, the best way would be to just reformat the hard drive, I used GParted (can be downloaded as a live-cd). XP should be able to find the drive then. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/115596-trying-to-remove-partition-on-toshiba-satellite-a305-s6858-laptop/#findComment-594810 Share on other sites More sharing options...
corbin Posted July 20, 2008 Share Posted July 20, 2008 Weird. I guess MS didn't follow through with Win FS, because I have Vista on a NTFS partition too ;p. Sounds to me though as if it wasn't an actual file system, but just a feature overlay. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/115596-trying-to-remove-partition-on-toshiba-satellite-a305-s6858-laptop/#findComment-594942 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel0 Posted July 20, 2008 Share Posted July 20, 2008 WinFS was dropped a long time ago. A shame I think... Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/115596-trying-to-remove-partition-on-toshiba-satellite-a305-s6858-laptop/#findComment-594946 Share on other sites More sharing options...
corbin Posted July 20, 2008 Share Posted July 20, 2008 Hrmm would've been kind of cool. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/115596-trying-to-remove-partition-on-toshiba-satellite-a305-s6858-laptop/#findComment-594962 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrfedex Posted September 6, 2008 Share Posted September 6, 2008 Stumbled across this today. I have a Toshi S6839 XP did not ship with SATA Drivers, so that is the problem. I also have a Lenovo R61, same problem. Lenovo's bios let me disable SATA, and XP installed perfect. Not tried with Toshiba bzus it runs Linux Mint and Wine flawlessly. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/115596-trying-to-remove-partition-on-toshiba-satellite-a305-s6858-laptop/#findComment-635191 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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