Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 07:20:17 +0800 From: Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Phantom disks??
At 08:11 AM 25/04/2002 -0700, you wrote: >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...) Hmm ... how did you create the Windows partitions under Linux? IIRC I had problems of getting DOS to even SEE what I thought were DOS partitions created with Linux FDISK but then when I gave up and used Partition Magic to create them then went back to look at them in Linux FDISK they actually showed up as a different type (and not a type that would have struck me as a DOS partition type) ... I can't remember what it was but that seemed to fix it for me ... >>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. Umm ... well I had a Win98/Red Hat 6.2 installation running fine with 4 primaries (created using Partition Magic) ... >>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 :) If you've got PM you might want to play with it there ... otherwise if its only annoying you (and not causing any other problems) just hide it using TweakUI. >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? Ooh Ooh Ooh this has caused me problems in the past ... maybe thats it? - 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://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 **************************************************************
