Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 11:38:55 +0200 (MET DST)
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Subject: Re: Re: HDD Recomendations.
Just some OSses use CHS info from Partition Table while others look just at relative
sector entry.
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>Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 23:56:03 -0700
>De: "neil barnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>A: Libretto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sujet: Re: HDD Recomendations.
>
>Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2001 06:46:59
>From: "neil barnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: HDD Recomendations.
>
>As my comments earlier this week - it's easy to create a partition table
>which windows can't see. W95 and 98 AFAIK don't use the bios to talk to the
>drives but they do get the drive geometry info from it. You can see similar
>behaviour if you format an 800M drive with IBM disk manager: it will return
>788M. But if you ask fdisk to look at it, it will tell you there's a 740M
>disk of which 788M is used...
>
>You can also make a drive which fdisk can't handle, and you can break it so
>that you can't boot e.g. tom's linux root boot to get at the linux fdisk.
>
>Don't mess with the partition table of a working drive unless you have
>backups...
>
>Neil
>
>>Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 00:54:19 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
>>From: Michael Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>Subject: Re: HDD Recomendations.
>>
>>On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, David Chien wrote:
>> > Partitioning software like Partition Magic (pay) or Ranish Partition
>> > Manager (free) or Linux partitioning software (free), do an entirely
>> > different thing of creating and managing (moving, resizing, copying)
>> > partitions on your HD. They do not allow the Libretto to see >8.4GB
>> > of the total HD.
>>
>>Depends on what you mean by "the Libretto"!
>>
>>When I put a 10GB HD into my Lib70 and installed Win98, PartitionMagic 6
>>could only see 8.4GB of the HD. However, after I used Linux to create a
>>partition above 8.4GB, then PM (run from the Win98 GUI) could see the
>>whole drive (although PM, run from a Win98 boot disk, could not.)
>>
>>Of course, for PM to "see" the whole drive just means it can read and
>>write to the partition table, so maybe that's not such a big deal. (I
>>haven't tried moving or resizing any partitions above 8.4GB, but that
>>would be an extremely interesting experiment.)
>>
>>Mike
>>
>>P.S. - WARNING: Do *not* try to create a FAT partition above 8.4GB using
>>PM (without disk manager software). I did. Seemed too good to be true.
>>It was - Win98 wouldn't boot. When I booted from a floppy, my first
>>(Win98) partition was nowhere to be found. Deleting the FAT partition
>>using Linux (fortunately) returned everything to normal, but I won't be
>>doing that again! [Analysis: I think the partition table "wrapped around"
>>the values above 8.4GB, thus hiding the first partition.]
>>
>>
>>
>>
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