Allan Mee wrote: > Do I have another problem? I just installed a trial version of Partition > Magic 8.0 - I was using versions 3 and 6 previously. It says something like > I have an extended partition that crosses the 1024 Cylinder boundary but is > NOT marked as an extendedX partition - and warns me that I may lose data - > question is do I want or need Partition Magic to fix it? > Now, I only created ONE partition with win98's FDISK - gave it 75% of my 120 > Gb drive and let Linux automatically sort out the other 30-odd Gb for > itself. So any extended partitions belong to Linux. Should I let Partition > Magic mark this partition as an extendedX partition or just leave it? > Please advice me.
Only if you use W9x or ME might the extended partition type be relevant to possible data loss, and only if there are M$ partitions beyond cyl 1023 that must be accessed while winDOS is booted. Powerquest is being a good little Micro$erf warning you that the non-standard M$ 0Fh extended type is not in place. Learn more at URI below. -- "There's nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it." William James Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/partitioningindex.html
