Frankly Rik, as I cannot remember what I did to partition the disk, we are clutching at straws to try and use this as any precedent for future problems and how to stop things going wrong again. I knew from the start that it was to be a dual booter so I _doubt_ that I installed win98 in 10 G and then tried to make it smaller. More likely I used a partitioning tools first, which one I cannot recall.
On Mon, 2004-08-16 at 21:37, Rik Tindall wrote: > [ You don't have to remember or write anything down, just do it right in > the first place. Use either fdisk to create the partitions before you start. > Doing the partitioning at the outset - independent of Windows install - > deperplexes its file system. It will use all of what it claims as C:\ > thereafter, & I'm not surprised to see an external intervention being > ignored. We need more test results from Lin/XP partitioners, to > safeguard new user's data - Linux will get a bad rap if we can't :-] > > Nick Rout wrote: > > >*nick struggles to remember* > > > >It was a virgin ex-lease machine, no wait it might have had a vfat > >partition with the barest dos system ie command.com and not much else. > > > >I installed w98 first and _probably_ asked it's fdisk to only take half > >the disk, but I am very unsure: > > > This isn't a default install step for Win98 - you must have used a Win > bootdisk first if this is true, which I doubt. > > More likely Linux's fdisk or parted or something was used after the > Winstall, to make Linux space. > > Now, both Windows & Linux seem smart enough to have local partition info > integrated into their OS files. It doesn't surprise me if Windows causes > problems when it's partition gets 'amended'. The question is, which OS > install initiated the FS failure? Careful choice required here. > > >Nick (thinking to buy a series of notebooks to keep with each computer > >in next month's stationery order) > > > >On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 15:58:24 +1200 > >InfoHelp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>Did you partition the drive before or after the Win98 install? > >> > >>i.e. this could be a resizing issue that we all need to learn from. > >> > >> >
