when a extended partition exists after two primary partition in the physical
layout of the hdd,I think windows98 assumes it to be a windows partition ,but
since it doesnot have a fat filesystem,thus the error.I too have the same
problem on my 20GB hdd,when I manually moved,two partitions inside a extended
partition outside making the two as primary partitions and resizing the
extended partition.now windows98 on my machine and dos7.x for that matter
recognised the linux partiton area as a drive,but the contents are junk.so I
do not touch this partition in windows and continue my work.while windowsNT
on the same machine does not recognise that space.it could be an advanced
feature of windows98.;-).I checked my partition table also.it seemed to be
perfect.there was no error,what so ever for windows to recognise the two
partitions as windows drives.but the only thing was that it was before an
extended partition,in the physical layout of the disk.as in kinjalsonpal's
case,windows was already installed when the partition table was edited.so may
be windows makes a cache of partition somewhere.?
regards
sanjeev
On Saturday 07 July 2001 17:27, USM Bish wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 05, 2001, kinjalsonpal wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > This is my first post on this list ..
> > JFYI,am basically a Student at NCST,Mumbai and I am using
> > Caldera OpenLinux 2.3 on my home PC ..
>
> Welcome ... Rare to see someone on Caldera in India!
>
> > Now coming to the problem :- On my home PC I have 10GB hdd
> > in which there are three primary partitions - 6gb,2gb,2gb
> > ..
>
> Okay.
>
> > Win98 is installed on the first partition and the second
> > partition also belongs to Win98 ..
>
> Okay.
>
> > Linux is installed on the last partition in which I have 2
> > logical partitions one for Root(/) and the other for the
> > Swap partition
>
> Huh ? But you stated on top that you had three PRIMARY
> partitions ! That is probably where the error lies. You
> probably had just two Primary and two Extended logical
> partitions. Please post your partition table information for
> clarification.
>
> At this stage, you may not be in a position to do a gpm clip
> nor get output with script. Log into Linux as root. Either
> on console or xterm type in:
>
> fdisk /dev/hda
>
> When fdisk loads, type in "p" for print partition table info
> Jot the full details by hand on paper, then press "q" for
> quit.
>
> Post the complete result to the list please ...
>
> > Before installing Linux, Win98 showed me both the
> > partitions correctly as c: and d: as the last one was kept
> > unused for installing Linux..
> > However after installing Linux, Win98 shows 3 partitions
> > as c,d and e where e: shows the contents of what
> > previously belonged to d: and now the d: show me an error
> > message of "Invalid media reading drive d "
>
> Since all bootable systems must be installed on Primary (not
> extended) partitions, by all probabilities, the partition
> table of hda2 (Win D:) has been taken up by Caldera ...
>
> > In other words the positions of both the partitions are
> > swapped (from win98 point of view) Even worse I can't
> > access the second partition from the dos prompt ..
> > Please help me
> > Thanks in advance
>
> You need to repartition your system manually and re-install
> Caldera after restoring your Windows. For now just post back
> your partition table information, and lets see what all can
> be recovered.
>
> > Warm Regards,
> > sonpal -kj
>
> USM Bish
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