Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2002 18:47:08 -0500 (EST) From: Michael Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: my brain hurts [LIB]
> >I just booted my L110 from the FDD / Win'98 recovery diskette (Shift+F5), > >from cold. > > > >I just don't get it - how can C: and D: and E: "see" the whole 8GB, 1GB, > >and > >20GB respectively??? No Win'2K, no fancy BIOS-enhancing software, > >absolutely > >nothing... > > Actually (major speculation mode) it occurs to me that as w98 only uses the > bios at initialisation, that is might be quite happy once things have > booted. Anyone got a big disk to experiment? This may not be relevant (the lib 110 bios is probably different from the lib 70 bios), but ... When I first got a 10GB drive for my Lib70, I used Partition Magic (under Win98) to create several FAT32 partitions filling the whole 8.4 "visible" disk, then used Linux to create an EXT2 partition after the "hibernate" area. No problem there, and when rebooting to Windows, PM could now see the *whole* drive!! But then I got greedy and decided to switch the "upper" partition to type FAT32, reasoning that I had just found a way for Win98 to see the whole drive without a drive overlay program. Worked fine, right then. But, when I (tried to) reboot to Win98, MY C PARTITION HAD DISAPPEARED! Yup. And when booting Win98 from a recovery floppy, it was still gone, although I could then see the upper partition as well as the other (non-C) partitions. On a long shot, I rebooted into Linux, and could see all partitions. I breathed a sigh of relief, deleted the "upper" partiton, rebooted into win98, and then my C partition was back. What I *think* happened was that the partition table "wrapped around" (i.e. it ignored the higher bits of the address), and so the "upper partition" entries overlaid the C partition entries. I'd expect that if I'd written files to the "upper" partition, they would've been placed into the corresponding place on the (missing) C partition, but I didn't try. I don't know too much about HD geometry - does that make sense? Mike ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
