On Sun, 24 Feb 2002, Matt Williams wrote:
To check: go into Linux as root, and type "fdisk /dev/hda". Type 'p' to show the partition types, and note what's written by the 'System' column - the Linux one should be ID 83 (System: Linux). Chances are, if Win2k is detecting it, it's marked as some DOS/Windows ID. To change it, type 't' to change a partition type; then enter the partition number (which you got from printing it via 'p'), enter "83" to mark it as a Linux partition (so Windows won't recognise it as drive D:) Here's the output of p: Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1467 cylinders Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 1045 8393931 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hda2 1046 1467 3389715 f Win95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/hda5 1046 1062 136521 82 Linux Swap /dev/hda6 1063 1467 3253131 83 Linux I'm guessing that it's something to do with hda2 yes? It won't let me change it unless I delete it (as you probably know). If it is this can I get rids of it without killing the rest of the linux install?
Change the type from 0x0f to 0x85. This will hide it from Windows. It sounds as though Windows is getting confused because the extended partition holds no logical partitions that it can see. HTH, Michael