After my recent bout with my modem and wvdial, where I managed to lock
up my modem, I had to reinstall linux & windows... While doing so, I
wanted to partition my hard disk as -
hda1 (primary) - 20MB - ext2 - linux boot,
hda2 (primary) - 512MB - vfat - windows98,
hda3 (extended) - 2056MB
hda4 - 1536MB - vfat - windows softwares
hda5 - 512MB - vfat - windows games
hda6 (extended) - 1550MB
hda7 - 1330MB - ext2 - linux root
hda8 - 199MB - linux swap.
My hda is 4311MB (CHS=8354/16/32) as per linux and 4111MB as per dos; no
bad sectors. I had hoped to create hda1 to hda3 in dos fdisk and hda6 in
linux cfdisk. But partitions hda1 to hda3 made in dos(win98/winME) were
rejected outright by cfdisk. Also, cfdisk would not allow me to have two
extended partitions. So, I had to be contended with hda3 as a primary
partition of 2056MB and hda6 as extended. I have now installed and
running both win and lin. But though windows can see hda2 & hda3 primary
partitions, when I switch to dos mode (from windows), hda3 is no longer
visible. Also, linux reports hda3 as 1950MB, but windows can see only
1550MB. Of late, windows has started complaining about not being able to
read the last sector on drive c: ie. hda2 and asks for LBA to be turned
on. Any thing wrong with what I have done ?
Any guidance to good partitioning please ?
-K.Ghosh.
p.s. BTW, I have a 260MB relic as hdd1 where I keep all my working data,
so I can play around with the softwares on hda.
-K.Ghosh.
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