Douglas Bates wrote: > /dev/hda2 was reserved for Windows NT in case I wanted > to use that at work. Eventually I decided to remove NT. I would now > like to use /dev/hda2 as a second VFAT partition. > I used cfdisk to reset the partition type to Win95 FAT32 (0B), which > is the same type as /dev/hda1.
Out of curiosity, what type of partition was /dev/hda2 before you changed it to FAT32? Assuming it was NTFS before, that *may* explain what happened when you formatted/scandisked that partition in Win98. All versions of Win9X have a bug that can pop up when there is more than one visible primary FAT (or FAT32) partition on a drive, AND the last logical drive is non-DOS. It has to do with the order of mounting (assigning letters) - first the active primary, then the logicals, then additional visible primaries. Somehow it gets confused between the last logical partition (if it's non-DOS), and the 2nd visible primary, and problems similar to yours can happen. I've had it happen myself, and fixed it by making the last logical partition a DOS partition. This bug may have been what caused the corruption to /dev/hda6. Before, if you had NTFS (non FAT primary) on /dev/hda2, it wouldn't have occurred. Tom -- Try Debian GNU/Linux - it's free, it's open source, and it rocks http://www.debian.org
