-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2007-02-02 at 07:09 -0000, riccardo35@ wrote:
1) boot from DOS floppy [DOS vers 6 or less in my case] , and do :-
fdisk /mbr
Beware of msdos fdisk! I'm in the process of activating a big disk. I had made, in linux, a partition for windows, loaded it from an image, then tested it. I tried fdisk to check how did it see the partitions, run fdisk /mbr, then tried to see if windows run, then cam back to linux. The extended partition had been shrinked! It should be: /dev/hdc2 2795 38913 290125867+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA) and was modified by dos fdisk (I did not tell it to write anything) to: /dev/hdc2 2795 18474 125949600 f W95 Ext'd (LBA) and there were some partitions left out of that space: /dev/hdc13 18475 21085 20972826 83 Linux /dev/hdc14 21086 23696 20972826 83 Linux ... so that linux fdisk complained: Logical partition 13 not entirely in partition 2 Logical partition 14 not entirely in partition 2 and they were not mounted. This originates, I guess, because the disk is 320GB, and the bios doesn't see the full size nor Windows Me, it seems - but linux does fine. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFFww5btTMYHG2NR9URAl2iAJ9JL9phJcxo8P7sUSBWWtwFTxw1IgCfYQji dJ1M+TN8OU1Ov5nCeg+BVMo= =e/9F -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org