Hi again, Theodore Todorov wrote:
Some more details about the state of the partition table: the normal fdisk "p" command shows correct sizes for partitions hda2 (193-2193) and hda8 (845-1106), but the "expert mode" fdisk "p" command shows truncated hda2 (193-1023) and hda8 (845-1023). In both fdisk modes partitions 9 and 10 are not shown.
I was having similar(ish) problems a couple of weeks ago. In the end I found that the extended partition could be sorted with changing its type from: 5 Extended to f Win95 Extended I don't know whether or not this is equivalent to 'large disk support' under dos fdisk, but it certainly helped me (unfortunately *after* I had trashed an oem Win98 installation). If I am correct, this should fix your truncated partitions under expert mode. Then you should be able to fix hda9 and hda10 as explained before (although I don't think you'll have to go on a delete/recreate spree now - just create two 'new' partitions with the exact cylinder sizes).
I am not sure that deleting and re-creating my partitions will help since the partition sizes already appear to be correct in the normal fdisk mode, it looks more like if there is an externally imposed hard limit of 1023 cylinders which prevents access to partitions 9 and 10.
I agree delete/recreate won't help, just create the old ones (assuming the Win95 extended partition fixes the truncation problem).
I expect that if I re-run _dos_ fdisk and allow support for large drives (without actually creating/deleting any partitions) the problem will disappear, but I dont't have much experience with dos fdisk (as the mess in which I find myself now demonstrates), and it does not really explain what it's doing or ask for confirmation, so I'd prefere to be sure before doing this.
Hmm. I think I would try changing the extended type to Win95 Extended under linux before resorting to dos fdisk. I hope people will correct me if I'm wrong...
Isn't there a way to "activate support for large disks" for an existing partition table from linux?
Well, as I said, I don't know whether the Win95 Extended partition type is
equivalent to "activate support for large disks" under dos.
Hope that helps again,
Chris
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