Pixel wrote:
> Borsenkow Andrej <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>
>>After I resized the partitions on the hdb with harddrake (yes, it has worked!)
>>I could not boot - BootMagic lost Linux and PartitionMagic showed just a
>>single large partition instead of three. It turned out, diskdrake silently
>>changed partition typoe Extended (5) into Linux Extended (85). This is not
>>understood by PartitionMagic (and I guess by most Windows tools as well).
>>
>
> this is meant to be. windows do not handle nicely extended partitions that do
> not end with a windows-recognised one.
>
> in expert mode, it doesn't do so.
>
> in no way did it thrash partition table!
>
>
It did. It changed it without any apparent reasons and made it
inaccessible to other tools. I do not see any excuse. I can see when it
creates *new* extended partition with Linux type instead of Windows -
but I fail to see any reason to change existing type.
-andrej
