Not much online time today, sorry. I am fighting a (losing) battle with my technology.<\/p>\n

I have spent most of today trying to set up my main PC as a dual boot Linux\/windows box using openSUSE 10.2 (64 bit) and Windows XPSP2.<\/p>\n

The problems began with Partition Magic. The PC I have came with WinXP installed on its 180gb HDD. As I had around 100gb free space, I thought putting 20 gig aside for Linux would be next to no problems. I ran diskeeper and checkdisk to make sure everything was fine (it was) then I rank Partition Magic to resize the disk – I planned to make a 1gig swap file and about 14 gig for the linux install.<\/p>\n

Sadly, each and every time Partition Magic rebooted (claiming it was going to resize the partitions) it came up with “Error 1513 Bad Attribute Position in File Record<\/strong>” and suggested I looked at the help files. I honestly spent over an hour doing this (reboot, choose partition sizes, restart, get error message, check help files, find nothing, reboot, choose partition sizes…. etc). Nothing I could find in the help files was any use.<\/p>\n

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