On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 09:31:12PM -0700, uday joshi wrote:
>Hi
>
>As per my experience the partition table is written immediately after you
>exit fdisk, but the changes will be displayed only after rebooting the
>windows. So if you have deleted partition D it will still be shown in
>partition info in fdisk. After a reboot it will display the partition details
>correctly.
>
>Actually parttiioniong in SUSE is VERY COOL.
>
>Perhaps it uses WINDOWS's parttion record, which was not correct in your case.
>
>
>I really don't know the INTERNALS.
Uday, what happened in my case was there were three partitions C, D & E. I
deleted D drive using windos fdisk. Then I rebooted and booted directly using
SuSE CD. Installation went on smoothly. Created swap and root partition, since
I deleted D drive I could install linux below 1024 cylinder limit. Lilo also
booted linux. Then I booted windows from lilo and to my surprise it started
checking (scandisk) D drive. Then when I checked in My Computer more surprise,
all C, D and E drives present and D & E are empty. No Data. On E drive there
were some mp3 files all disappeared. How ? I don't know :-)
Should I have booted windows after deleting D drive and then restart windows
and boot through SuSE ????
Regards
Rajesh
>
>Windos Fdisk is supposed to write the partition during reboot. It is
>written immediatly just before shutting down isn't it ?
>
>Say I have C, D, E and if I start Windows in ms-dos prompt and remove D
>drive using fdisk and reboot directly from SuSE CD, should the partition
>table be written or not ?
>?
>?
>
>Faced a major problem during SuSE 7 installation at one place here ?
>
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