On Sat, 16 Feb 2002 23:52:25 +0000, you wrote: >> > Theproblem is that booting Windows from the Lilo menu I can no longer >> > see the D: drive under Windows. >>
>this also sounds like the old bug regarding the 'relabelling' of the extended >partition' to a linux extended partition, but from the archives this seem to >have been fixed beyond lm 7.2, anyway 'fdisk /dev/hda' and 'p' to display the >parttion types will tell you what partitions you have Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 4867 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 4867 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 639 5132736 c Win95 FAT32 (LBA) /dev/hda2 640 1149 4096575 1c Hidden Win95 FAT32 (LBA) /dev/hda3 1150 1787 5124735 83 Linux /dev/hda4 1788 4867 24740100 5 Extended /dev/hda5 1788 2425 5124703+ 83 Linux /dev/hda6 2426 3063 5124703+ 83 Linux /dev/hda7 3064 3446 3076416 83 Linux /dev/hda8 3447 3574 1028128+ 82 Linux swap /dev/hda9 3575 4867 10385991 83 Linux Bascule, Thank you for the pointer .. from the fdisk output above you can see /dev/hda2 is set to Hidden Win95 Fat32 rather than Win95 FAT32. I think this is the problem but don't know how to edit the partition type without destroying the partition. Can anyone out there point me at the solution? Tony
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