Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 15:05:53 +0000 From: "neil barnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Phantom disks??
>Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 14:37:39 +0100 (GMT/BST) >From: Digby Tarvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Phantom disks?? <phantom of the opera libretto> All I can say is that windows is broken on its *own* fdisk specification... > >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. Usually seems to show them as empty but won't allow you to erase it on the grounds that it isn't. I've had to use linux fdisk (or friends) to erase an 83 partition before now, and micro~01 is very unhappy about formatting a partition it didn't fdisk (e.g. linux fdisk two partitions, the first one a bootable vfat and the second a linux 83, then ask windows to format the first. It stomps the second...) > >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. Yes, in windows/dos. > >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? > It might be worth reading the MBR and the volume boot records that define the partitions with a hex disc editor - but I bet it'll make headaches :) >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 > I wonder if there's any relevance in the fact that you have the extended partition set as bootable/active? Windows is unhappy about anything other than the first partition set as bootable, maybe changing that will alter things? Neil _________________________________________________________________ Join the world�s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com ************************************************************** 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 **************************************************************
