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Udo Huebner wrote:

> Partioning had been done by Acronis Partition Expert under WinXP.

You better use the built-in (XP) disk manager. Even if I heard that
Acronis is working fine, most of the time, it may be incompatible with
XP in details.

Linux boot managers may treat physical disks differently from Windows
boot managers. It took me some time to find the correspondence between
the Windows and Linux drive and partition numbering, on my own system;
based on the disk size and cylinder numbers of the partitions, shown by
grub, and the output of the Windows disk manager.

Where Windows tools often show partition labels, as quite reliable hints
about the contents of a partition, many Linux tools do not bother with
showing such labels, since POSIX file systems have no use for partition
labels. Otherwise Linux tools know more about Windows, than Windows
tools know about Linux.

DoDi
--
Ich lasse mir mein Windows nicht schlechter machen, als es ist.
Vor allem nicht von Trollen, die von Windows nur wissen, daß sie es
hassen ;-)

Hans-Peter Diettrich schrieb:
> Udo Huebner wrote:
>
>> Partioning had been done by Acronis Partition Expert under WinXP.
>
> You better use the built-in (XP) disk manager. Even if I heard that
> Acronis is working fine, most of the time, it may be incompatible with
> XP in details.
>
> Linux boot managers may treat physical disks differently from Windows
> ...

Thank you for the explanations. I gave some explanations of the
constraints in my computer to the answer of Tom.

Regards Udo