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nomme
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PostPosted: Fri May 02, 2008 12:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

well if i would reinstall it from scratch i could change back to ext3 right? so why install windows? or am i missing something?
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PostPosted: Fri May 02, 2008 12:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I tought that you had a Windows on your box....so it's not the case, so reinstall your Gentoo box from scratch and also repartition your HDD.
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PostPosted: Fri May 02, 2008 12:43 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

That 2.6GB FAT32 partition at the end of the drive is probably a Windows recovery partition.

Maybe pressing a certain key during bootup made the BIOS decide to "recover" the factory installed OS.
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PostPosted: Fri May 02, 2008 12:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

That's why I think that you had a Windows ....
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PostPosted: Fri May 02, 2008 12:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Okey, i guess thats my only choice. But im still wondering how this could have happend...

thx for the help anyways
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PostPosted: Fri May 02, 2008 12:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

No problem :)
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PostPosted: Fri May 02, 2008 11:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

If you need anything, just post :)
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