What I'd love to know is what went wrong when I had Mandrake 7.0 use a 2 GB
space which was unused space but physically situated within an extended
Windows partition (that was the easiest way to install Corel Linux). I didn't
actually resize any FAT partitions (just had DiskDrake create the needed
partitions in that space) but when I tried to run Partition Magic, it refuses to
start with an error "unable to identify the Windows partition". Further
investigation into PM error codes apparently reveals that I have a partition
table error where "the logical drive chain is incompatible" which is a highly
dangerous situation. The only solution is to delete and recreate all my
partitions on this drive.
Now Win98 appears to run fine (except for Partition Magic) as does Linux. I'm
willing to back everything up (thank goodness for Ghost) and redo the
partitions but I'm worried what might happen the next time I install Mandrake
Linux. I guess I could (and perhaps should have) use Partition Magic to create
all my Linux partitions beforehand and then I could avoid having DiskDrake do
anything?
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Russell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2000 6:09 AM
> Subject: [newbie] Re: 7.0 partioning ?
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>
> > If i doesn't, I've used Partition Magic for windoze with _great_ success.
> >
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