It was about 1 am when I tried this so not exactly sure
what I had chosen but will try and go through the options
again tonight. If I remember correctly, I think I did try
to make a primary and then an extended partition but fdisk
seemed to be trying to verify the 20gb linux partition and
promted me if I wanted to use all of this space.
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> is the second partition one of the primary ones? if it is, try
> making it an extended partition. windows somethimes does not
> like having 2 primary partitions
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> Subject: [scottish] adding DOS partition
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> 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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