Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 09:20:22 +0800 From: Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: my brain hurts [LIB]
At 03:00 PM 9/03/2002 -0800, you wrote: >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! Actually, I had the same problem (as my rantings a few weeks ago would attest) when I first got my 20 gig hard drive. PM does some really weird things with partition tables and Linux FDISK is a bit casual with its checking. BOTH utilities look at the first partition on the drive to find out a lot of information (such as the type, presence of a drive overlay and so-on). Certainly, Linux FDISK recommends that the FIRST partition on the drive be created with MS-DOS FDISK so that it can figure out whats going on, and that any DOS partitions (ESPECIALLY any extended partitions you want DOS to be able to see) be created with MS-DOS FDISK (PM also works as long as the first partition on the disk was created with MS-DOS FDISK). This isn't so critical if the BIOS can see the entire drive but its pretty important if you're relying on Win98 being smart enough to bypass the BIOS and its CRITICAL if you're using a drive overlay program (which I thoroughly recommend in the event you need to drop into DOS mode to do recovery ... I'm using the version of EZ-Bios thats lurking in the archives of this list somewhere and following the procedure I outlined a while back I've yet to have a single partition problem despite doing more playing around with PM and DriveImage than I would have liked ... actually thats not quite right, Norton Ghost has a bit of a fit but DriveImage does the job well enough). >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. Ya same thing ... try doing the IDENTICAL thing except create the first few partitions using MS-DOS FDISK. - Raymond --- /~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\ | | "Does fuzzy logic tickle?" | | ___ | "My HDD has no reverse. How do I backup?" | | /__/ +-------------------------------------------| | / \ a y b o t | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | HTTP://www.raybot.net | | ICQ: 31756092 | Need help? Visit #Windows98 on DALNet! | \~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~/ ************************************************************** 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 **************************************************************
