Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2002 10:04:21 +0800
From: Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [LIB] Phantom disks??
At 08:07 PM 25/04/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 03:02:24 +0000
>From: "Matthew Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: [LIB] Phantom disks??
>
>{Digby]
>>>>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?
>
>[Neil]
>>>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 :)
>
>[Raymond]
>>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.
>
>When this happened to me, PM didn't see those two 'phantom' partitions
>that Windows was reporting it saw. An example of PM doesn't always know
>what's going on with Linux I guess. Your experience creating Linux
>partitions with PM that showed up look like a DOS partition in Linux is
>another example.
Nah what I meant was creating DOS partitions with Linux didn't quite work
and that PM did weird things creating any major partitioning scheme when
you had a drive overlay running and the disk was blank. Once I'd used DOS
FDISK to create the first partition and the extended then used Linux FDISK
to create the Linux partition, PM was fine moving partitions around or
creating new partitions. I guess it does what Linux FDISK does ... look to
the existing partitions to see if anything weird is happening as opposed to
trying to find out for itself (like DOS FDISK).
>Of course I had an big investment in the time I had put into setting up a
>lot of software on the Win95 partition. If you've just begun setting up
>your OSs, you might just want to scrap everything and start over.
Bah ... Windows is fine if you just do a straight file copy. Put the hard
drive into your desktop and copy all the stuff off (do NOT use XCOPY or
you'll lose all your long filenames ... do it under Windows, its safe to
copy files OFF the hard drive without the overlay active, just don't change
any partition info) ... then repartition then copy all the stuff back on
then go FDISK /MBR .... I've done it 3 times and its worked ... don't try
it with NT or Linux though!
>I'd start by making one primary partition for Windows, and installing it.
>Then use PM to hide it, create a small partition to start your Linux
>installation, and go from there.
I've never used PM's hide facility ... what exactly does it do?
- Raymond
P.S. I'm running a bit behind on the list, apologies if I'm answering
questions that have already been answered!
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