Dwivedi Ajay kumar wrote:
>
> On Sun, 2 Jul 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Since windoze does not recognise linux logical partitions. Don;t
> worry about them. Windoze seems to think that's there can;t be any other
> OS except MS :-(
>
> Not really, But It may keep on showing some arbitary drives in the
> my computer. (other than the two you have made). Never Format those drives
> else you will lose linux.
>
i fear that the problem has already occurred. :-(
i had selected partition type of fat32 (type b or 6) in linux fdisk. it
got created successfully, i booted with win98 bootup disk which is fat32
(my running win95 is on fat16) and formatted this partition. it went
ahead ok. i booted to win95 and copied my downloaded backup files to
this partition in explorer.
it started giving problem while copying, some files got halted in
between, some went well.
i tried to copy back the files to c:, some got copied others aborted.
i tried to format d:, it said sector not found.
during the bootup to win95 next day, it hanged while trying to access
that new partition d: drive. message appeared that the harddisk is LBA
hence a non-lba partition may cause data to be lost and may make
harddisk unusable.
it hanged on successive booting. so i again went to linux fdisk, and
changed the partition type to, i think c, which is fat32, LBA. but with
win98 bootup disk, i again could not format it and it said sector not
found.
i finally have deleted this partition, and 2G space is locked in it.
what to do? has any damage taken place while trying to write to this
partition in non-LBA mode (what is LBA?)
can i make this partition work under win95. i can't do anything in win
fdisk as it says that one primary and one extended partitions are
already there so it will have nothing more.
or can i make it linux-native ext2?
any method of low level partition formatting.
regards
-vulcan
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