Taking his advice one step further:
Using the Linux fdisk, change your extended partition from type Win95 to type
Win95 LBA. I did this and upon reboot the entire drive was visible to Windows.
Win95/98 can see large drives even if the BIOS can't. Why it doesn't default
to creating LBA extended partitions is beyond me.
On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, you wrote:
> I've got a 13 gig Maxtor drive, and I'll give you the same advice I was
> given when I asked this question. Don't use the MaxBlast software.
>
> Basically, let Windows and the BIOS think that there are only 8 gig (or
> however many your BIOS can see). Linux, specifically LILO and Grub, don't
> need this software and can see the full hard drive just fine.
>
> The one thing you will want to do, if you're not running 7.1 or don't have
> the latest LILO is to make a small /boot partition near the front of the
> drive. Fortunately, LILO was changed recently to remove the 1024 cylinder
> restriction, making this unnecessary.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Wayne
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jonathan Wolfgang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2000 12:00 AM
> To: Mandrake Expert
> Subject: [expert] install problem: partition detection
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I have a 20 gig Maxtor hard drive installed in my pc. The BIOS does not
> recognize the full capacity of the drive so I am using their release of
> EZ-Drive called MaxBlast. Naturally, Windows works fine. I have Partition
> Magic 5.0 Pro and have partitioned the drive for FAT32 and also Ext2 file
> systems. When trying to install Mandrake 7.1, the partition program only
> shows one large FAT32 partition and a tiny 7 MB partition at the end of the
> drive. I'm assuming this is due to MaxBlast being installed on the drive.
> If I press the "restore partition table" button (in Expert Install Mode) the
> Ext2 partitions are shown, but the remaining FAT32 partition is shown as a
> blank or empty partition. I am not brave enough to continue the
> installation because I am afraid that my Windows partition will be
> destroyed.
>
> I have checked for a BIOS upgrade, but the most recent one available is from
> 1997 and does not mention anything about large hard drive detection.
>
> I have previously installed RedHat 6.1 with the exact same partitioning
> scheme and it detected everything properly. I am wondering if there is any
> command that can be passed to the installation routine that can help this.
> Is there an updated boot disk that may help the partition detection?
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Jon
