LBA is logical block addressing a method used to translate hardisk
parameters(C,H,S) for disks having capacity greater than 528mb.
what do you have in your bios lba or non lba .
try to setup the 2gb space as logical win partition see if it
helps. changing it to logical ext2 partition will work out.
btw does win95 read from fat32 partitions, win95 OSR2 could read it
though. looks like your win95 is not able to read fat32 partition
(do to older version).
Rajil Saraswat
On Tue, 4 Jul 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 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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