Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 14:37:39 +0100 (GMT/BST) From: Digby Tarvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Phantom disks??
I am looking for some advice from any Windows experts out there that think they can explain a mysterious phenomenon I am seeing on My Libretto 100CT. I have partitioned my hard disk (IBM 20GB) with 3 primary partitions of about 1.5GB each, and the remainder in a Linux extended partion. My intention was to have the original Toshiba Windows95 in the first partition, BSD Unix in the second (BSD needs a primary partition which it sub-divides into its own partitions), the third partition reserved for any other OS I want to run that needs a primary partition (eg NT, OS-9000) etc. The problem is that when I installed Windows on the first partition, it seemed to think that I had two additional drives (partitions) available. I had expected one additional drive, because partition 3 is currently of type FAT32, but it sees drives C:, D: and E:?? I formatted drive D under Windows, assuming it to be partition 3, and that seemed to work fine. However when I used Linux to copy my old Windows partition from another disk onto /dev/hda3 (third partition) Windows saw the data appear in drive E:, and attempts to boot from the third partion resulted in a message that it was not bootable. I then copied the same image to partition 1 and it booted fine. So Partition E: is what Linux sees and partition 3, but windows FDISK tells me that drive D: is the third partition and makes no mention of a drive E: The final curiosity is that Windows tells me the extended partition is completely empty. If doesn't show the Linux partitions as non-DOS as I would have expected, but appears not to be able to see them at all. I suspect if I asked it to make a logical DOS drive, it would happily do so, overwriting the Linux partitions. Clearly there is some compatibility problem between Windows and Liniux created extended partitions which means that if I wanted a Windows partition, I would have had to have created that first in the extended drive. So the puzzle I have is - why is Windows showing the extra drive, and where abouts on the disk is it??? Is there any way to find out what is happening without destroying some other part of the disk? Any guesses? Here is how Linux sees my partitioning: rover:/home/digbyt/boot # fdisk -l /dev/hda Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 2432 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 1 195 1566306 b Win95 FAT32 /dev/hda2 196 390 1566306 9f BSD/OS /dev/hda3 390 584 1558336+ b Win95 FAT32 /dev/hda4 * 585 1390 6474195 f Win95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/hda5 585 601 136521 83 Linux /dev/hda6 602 613 96358+ 82 Linux swap /dev/hda7 614 679 530113+ 83 Linux /dev/hda8 680 941 2104483+ 83 Linux /dev/hda9 942 1018 618471 83 Linux /dev/hda10 1019 1028 80293+ 2a Unknown /dev/hda11 1029 1290 2104483+ 83 Linux /dev/hda12 1291 1943 5245191 83 Linux /dev/hda13 1944 2431 3919828+ 83 Linux -- Digby R. S. Tarvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cthulhu.dircon.co.uk ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives -------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 **************************************************************
