I'm glad I said to PowerQuest - question what would have happened had I clicked "Yes - ok fix it!"?
Allan
From: Felix Miata <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Cooker] ldm_validate_partition_table - what's that?
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 12:23:17 -0500
Allan Mee wrote:
> Do I have another problem? I just installed a trial version of Partition
> Magic 8.0 - I was using versions 3 and 6 previously. It says something like
> I have an extended partition that crosses the 1024 Cylinder boundary but is
> NOT marked as an extendedX partition - and warns me that I may lose data -
> question is do I want or need Partition Magic to fix it?
> Now, I only created ONE partition with win98's FDISK - gave it 75% of my 120
> Gb drive and let Linux automatically sort out the other 30-odd Gb for
> itself. So any extended partitions belong to Linux. Should I let Partition
> Magic mark this partition as an extendedX partition or just leave it?
> Please advice me.
Only if you use W9x or ME might the extended partition type be relevant
to possible data loss, and only if there are M$ partitions beyond cyl
1023 that must be accessed while winDOS is booted. Powerquest is being a
good little Micro$erf warning you that the non-standard M$ 0Fh extended
type is not in place. Learn more at URI below.
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"There's nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough,
people will believe it." William James
Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409
Felix Miata *** http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/partitioningindex.html
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