I don't believe it's advisable to create a partition within space that's
"physically situated within an extended Windows partition." Partitions
inside partitions are a no-no... if I'm understanding the situation
correctly, that is.
I'm surprised Disk Drake let you do that. I'd consider that a bug.
DvB
On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Chuck wrote:
> 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 ?
> >
> >
> > > If i doesn't, I've used Partition Magic for windoze with _great_ success.
> > >
