I am not sure but I already have a bootable win98 partition which runs
ok and is actually on a 4Gb disk. I just wanted to add another partition
or "Drive" to windows.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ian Drake, IT, SE
> Dunbartonshire
> Sent: 31 July 2001 11:30
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: RE: [scottish] adding DOS partition
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>
> Don't bootable OS's have to be under the 4 (or is that 8) Gb limit?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tam McLaughlin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 31 July 2001 11:13
> To: Scottish@Lists. Lug. Org. Uk
> Subject: [scottish] adding DOS partition
>
>
> Should DOS partitions be placed at the start of hard disks?
> I dual boot between win98/linux and win98 is on the primary
> master ide disk.
> I had Linux running on the 2ndry slave. I replaced the slave disk running
> Linux and installed mandrake 8. I partitioned a disk and added a 5Gb win98
> FAT32 partition at the end of the disk. When I boot to windows
> and run fdisk
> I cannot add the this 5Gb partition as a drive under windows.
> fdisk can see
> that there is a spare unallocated 5Gb partition at the end of the disk but
> tries to verify/add the Linux partition.
>
> Do I have to start again and create the win98 FAT32 partition at the start
> of the disk or is there a way to add this 5Gb to win98?
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