On Friday 01 August 2003 17:56, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
Drive D should have been the logical partition on the only extended partition. Are you sure you aren't mixing terminology?
Actually, I'm pretty sure I am. I know just enough to be dangerous. n_n' I'll try to be more careful, though.
You should see in Windows one primary partition, one extended (which would be ~10G), which would have 3 logical partitions, the first2 probably saying non-DOS, the third saying FAT32. If I asume you mistook the extended partition for a logical partition, of which there IS only one, I think the above looks fine, and Windows 98 will only see D (/dev/hda7), not touching the 2 Linux partitions.
Hm. Well, I tried fixing it myself a bit more, deleting the 7-gig partition entirely (this time using cfdisk), then rebooting into Windows's command-prompt-only mode to have another look. Here's my current Linux 'fdisk -l' output: --- Disk /dev/hda: 14.4 GB, 14453268480 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1757 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 395 3172806 b Win95 FAT32 /dev/hda2 * 396 880 3895762+ 5 Extended /dev/hda5 396 428 265041 82 Linux swap /dev/hda6 429 880 3630658+ 83 Linux --- And here's the Windows 'fdisk' info: --- Display Partition Information Current fixed disk drive: 1 Partition Status Type Volume Label Mbytes System Usage C: 1 A PRI DOS DOS 3098 FAT32 22% 2 A EXT DOS 3804 28% Total disk space is 13782 Mbytes (1 Mbyte = 1048576 bytes) The Extended DOS Partition contains Logical DOS Drives. Do you want to display the logical drive information (Y/N)......?[Y] --- When I choose to do so, I'm told: --- No logical drives defined Total Extended DOS Partition size is 3804 Mbytes (1 Mbyte = 1048576 bytes) ---
Check again in Windows to verify it sees only one logical partition in the one extended partition, or if it in fact sees 3. If it sees one extended, 3 logical, then you are ready to go.
Before it only saw one logical partition in the extended partition. Now it doesn't see any at all, and when I asked Windows fdisk to create a new logical partition, it thought it had all 10 gigs (instead of the 7 it should) to play with, so I aborted. So, um, what do I do now?