Ivor Blockley wrote:
> Hi
>
> I just installed mandrake 7.2 and now dos can't see my
> fat32 extended partitions (although linux still sees them).
> Prior to the mandrake install my harddrive was configured
> into 5 partitions - a primary dos fat32 parition ("c:")
> which I had recently formatted (in fact I was so slack I
> didn't make it bootable even), and 4 logical fat32
> paritions "d" to "g". Parititons "e" through to "g"
> contained valuable data, but paritition "d" was emtpy. So
> when I installed linux I used diskdrake to "delete"
> partition "d" and replace it with the required linux
> paritions. Mandrake works fine but when I boot up, say
> using a win98 boot disk, dos can see "c:", but no other
> hard drive paritions.
>
> Anyone know what happened and how to fix it? I can still
> obviously access all my data through linux, but it would be
> nice to have dos back to normal.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ivor
Ivor....if I remember correctly, what's happened here is that
DrakX has changed your hda2 partition id from type f to type
85. Check it out with fdisk and change it back if I'm
correct.
--
Alan
