Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2002 10:06:05 +0100 (GMT/BST) From: Digby Tarvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Phantom disks??
Just to clarify, any reference I have made to a Windows extended partition was in addition to a primary partition. There is certainly no problem creating a D: drive in the extended partion - indeed that is the only way to create a second windows drive on a single disk. If that didnt work, there would be no point in windows FDISK knowing about extended partitions at all. In my experience, Windows FDISK will only boot from a primary partition, and windows FDISK will not create more than one per drive. On the other hand, if you create two or three primary FAT partitions using a third party partitioning program, windows can be installed on more than one, and will boot to whichever is active. The active partition (1 2 or 3) will always be assigned the drive letter C:, with (I think) D: going to the first extended FAT partition. I have, however, not ruled out the possibilility that the phantom drive phenomenon is the result of Windows getting confused at seeing multiple primary FATS and no extended FAT... Regards, DigbyT Raymond: > > > >>>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? > > > >Yeah... At one time I was told to put Windows on first primary partition, > >definately not on an extended one. You guys have said you, or others have > >put Windows on primary partitions further along without problems though, yes? > > Without weirdo software (which often does strange things anyway) you can't > have Win9x/ME running on anything other than the first partition of the > boot drive. Linux, NT, 2k, XP, they're all fine wherever you put them (as > long as they're configured right). > > > - Raymond > P.S. I'm running a bit behind on the list, apologies if I'm answering > questions that have already been answered! > -- 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 **************************************************************
