USM Bish wrote on Saturday, July 07, 2001 5:27 PM
> Huh ? But you stated on top that you had three PRIMARY
> partitions ! That is probably where the error lies. You
Yes, my mistake .. there are, as u have stated below, two
Primary and two Secondary partitions ..
> probably had just two Primary and two Extended logical
> partitions. Please post your partition table information for
> clarification.
Here it is ..
-------------------------------- Start ----------------
Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1245 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 747 6000246 b Win95
FAT32
/dev/hda2 748 995 1992060 b Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda3 996 1245 2008125 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 * 996 1200 1646631 83 Linux
/dev/hda6 1201 1245 361431 82 Linux swap
--------------------------------- End ------------------
> type 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
I used -l switch to get the above mentioned output .. is it okay
? or something is still missing ? I had recently created this
file
as I expected this request :-)
I hope this will do ..
Actually, I forgot to mention in my previous mail that the
current setup was going quite OK, i.e. , Win98 was showing me
only 2 partitons that it actually occupies and in proper sequence
(C & D drives) .. And then one day, out of blue , Norton
AntiVirus complained me that your MBR has changed while i was
surfing the net .. So, fearing that some virus might have done
some malicious work in the MBR, I asked Norton AV to restore
original MBR after backing up the current one .. However to my
surprize I landed up in the current situation .. And even the
backed up MBR is also not restorable as Norton AV oblidges me to
say that the file is corrupted ..
> Since all bootable systems must be installed on Primary (not
> extended) partitions, by all probabilities, the partition
I thought this requirement is no longer needed to be fulfilled
for newer BIOSes ..
I am not fully aware of it .. Please correct me if i'm wrong
somewhere (My linux knowledge is still in it's chiledhood :-) )
JFYI, I'm using Via MVP3 m/b with an AMDK6-2 CPU ..
> table of hda2 (Win D:) has been taken up by Caldera ...
> You need to repartition your system manually and re-install
> Caldera after restoring your Windows. For now just post back
Do u mean to reinstall win98 or install Win98 after formatting
entire HDD ?
I can afford to reinstall but, I am afraid, I can't afford to
reformat and repartition the 6gb partition(C drive) ..
However I can manage to fiddle around with the last 2 partitions
..
> USM Bish
Thanks for reading this long post .. I hope the list won't mind
this ..
And thanks replying also ..
Warm Regards,
$ sonpal -kj
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