Sorry, John, but that makes absolutely no sense. DOS Fdisk is an MS-Dos
program. It's only purpose is: to set up partitions, or in more detail: to set
pointers to begin and end cylinders on the drive, and map partitions to it in
the 'TOC' of your harddrive, together with the partition type.
After doing this, it reboots the machine (or at least: YOU should reboot the
machine), since the new partitions aren't usable right yet; the 'TOC' must be
re-read by the BIOS or the bootloader or something I suppose. During this
reboot, DOS Fdisk gets thrown out of system memory.
After the reboot, you should format any DOS-drives, and then you can install
windows.
Now, since Fdisk is NOT running anymore when you install windows, how can it
tell windows where your partitions are? Well, it could leave a 'note' for
windows somewhere in the 'TOC', but that would mean that this write function
should be written into Fdisk, and a read function into Windows, and in such a
way that it doesn't screw up the partition table in any way. For what purpose
would anyone, even at Microsoft, do something silly like that when it's
perfectly possible for any program to just read out the 'TOC' of the harddrive,
and thereby figuring out the locations of any partitions?
I don't know where the partitions get read at boot time, but it happens long
before Windows boots, probably even before DOS boots. I guess the bootloader on
the MBR takes care of this.
Anyway, point being: Windows can read the partition table at any time, so it
really doesn't need the drive formatted with Fdisk for DOS to know where your
linux partitions are.
What did went wrong here then? My guess is hda1 and hda2 are overlapping, as
suggested by somebody else on this list. That's the first thing to come to mind,
although it might be 'coz of some other reason too, who knows?
On Apr 20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm guessing you used DOS Fdisk to create the extended
> partition for your Linux. This is a "bad idea" (tm). This
> makes Windows aware of that partition. Next time, just
> leave empty space at the end of your Windows drive and let
> Linux do the partitioning.
> John
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