Re: [Freedos-user] why make partitions hidden?

2006-07-14 Thread Carl Spitzer
On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 22:28 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Lester Vedrox wrote: > >> AB> Repartition disk (by FDISK or somethink like Partition Magic). > >> > >> EA> Use a GOOD partition editor (not MS FDISK... preferrably something > >> with a reasonable user interface and something which y

Re: [Freedos-user] why make partitions hidden?

2006-06-07 Thread Ray Davison
Lester Vedrox wrote: >>AB> Repartition disk (by FDISK or somethink like Partition Magic). >> >>EA> Use a GOOD partition editor (not MS FDISK... preferrably something with a >>reasonable user interface and something which you are good at using. > > > James, you should probably consider investing

Re: [Freedos-user] why make partitions hidden?

2006-06-06 Thread Johnson Lam
On Tue, 06 Jun 2006 22:28:00 +, you wrote: Hi Mark, >http://gparted.sourceforge.net >I would recommend trying that. The price is right! :-) Easy to use, the GUI really help understanding how the partition layout. Too bad it's too small for CD and too big for floppy, and need to boot Linux.

Re: [Freedos-user] why make partitions hidden?

2006-06-06 Thread kd4d
Lester Vedrox wrote: >> AB> Repartition disk (by FDISK or somethink like Partition Magic). >> >> EA> Use a GOOD partition editor (not MS FDISK... preferrably something with >> a reasonable user interface and something which you are good at using. > > James, you should probably consider investin

Re: [Freedos-user] why make partitions hidden?

2006-06-05 Thread Johnson Lam
On Tue, 06 Jun 2006 08:59:52 +0400, you wrote: Hi, >EA> The "cylinder > 1024" error message can have 2 causes: >[...] >EA> It is easy to fix 2. with a tool like Linux fdisk, but it is also >EA> very easy to break your whole partitioning scheme while attempting > > This is what I mean, what s

Re: [Freedos-user] why make partitions hidden?

2006-06-05 Thread Lester Vedrox
> AB> Repartition disk (by FDISK or somethink like Partition Magic). > > EA> Use a GOOD partition editor (not MS FDISK... preferrably something with a > reasonable user interface and something which you are good at using. James, you should probably consider investing in partitioning software: Pa

Re: [Freedos-user] why make partitions hidden?

2006-06-05 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 6-Июн-2006 00:13 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Auer) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: >> >> JH> Is there any way to fix this "too many cylinders" problem, >> >> 1. Backup contents of questioned disk. >> >> 2. Remove (by FDISK) from disk all partitions. >> >> 3. Reboot and ensure, th

Re: [Freedos-user] why make partitions hidden?

2006-06-05 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Arkady, > JH> However, it then issues two IO errors (>1023 cylinders) and dies in > > This mean something wrong with disk geometry. For example, you > partition disk not when LBA-mode was enabled or BIOS doesn't supports > LBA-translation (when disk geometry parameters are adjusted so, th

Re: [Freedos-user] why make partitions hidden?

2006-06-05 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 5-Июн-2006 12:43 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James Haley) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: JH> When I set my boot manager to boot this other disk (F: in windows), it seems JH> to start considering it drive C: as evidenced by the message I get at JH> startup. This is because BIOS "ex

Re: [Freedos-user] why make partitions hidden?

2006-06-05 Thread James Haley
of an unrecoverable error, I'd think, than to try to continue only to get those results. James Haley >From: "Lester Vedrox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net >To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net >Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] wh

Re: [Freedos-user] why make partitions hidden?

2006-06-05 Thread Lester Vedrox
LV> - Drive -, NTFS, primary, hidden, Windows XP LV> - Drive -, NTFS, primary, hidden, Windows 2000 LV> - Drive C, FAT32, primary, active, FreeDOS Eric> Why would you make the ntfs drives hidden? DOS will not use them anyway... This is just an example of the most straightforward configuration (