Warrl wrote:
[snip of earlier]
No, there is no fdisk program inside windows.
There's an FDISK program. All caps so that it can feel superior in some way. It is quite unsuitable for use if you have anything in mind other than a plain, vanilla, SIMPLE installation of MS-DOS and/or Windows 9x.
Actually, it is (sadly) even more complicated than that. AFAIK there _is_ an FDISK only in Win95 and Win98. WinNT4.0 and Win2K don't have it at all, relying on some form of `Disk Administrator'. The worse news (for me, at least so far) is that even linux `fdisk' isn't perfect, and it is (almost) a sure thing that disaster lies just around the corner if you mix any use of a Linux `fdisk', Dos/Win95/Win98 FDISK, WinNT/Win2K Disk Administrator and Partition Magic. Each seems to do different things to the MBR, and each seems to hold the potential for blowing something. I'd be delighted to hear from others if they have found some safe and secure way of handling partations, but so far both my brother (the Unix expert in our family) and I touch this stuff only very gingerly, and always breathe a sigh of relief when we find that what we were trying to do actually works. At the moment I have one machine that can, with some trouble, boot NT, 98, 2K, Linux and BeOS. But some of the transitions require a Floppy (I'm down to only needing one floppy, no matter what direction I want to move), but it took a long time to get there, and I am now afraid to add any further complexity to the boot process. It seems, somehow, like it _should_ be simpler... -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/