On Wednesday 09 November 2005 00:19, William Xu wrote: > GONG Jie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Tuesday 08 November 2005 21:19, William Xu wrote: > >> Hi there, > >> I have an 80G removable hard disk, which i divided into 40G xfs + 40G > >> vfat partitions. (In detail, cfdisk first, then mkfs.xfs and mkfs.vfat > >> for each partition.) > >> on linux, i could mount both partitions - sda1, sda5 successfully. But > >> on windows (i wish it could access the 40G vfat partition), it can't > >> recognize the disk. What's wrong here? > > > > I think the problem is the partition type of the extended partition. I > > guess you create a extended partition with type 5 (Extended) or 85 > > (Linux extended). But for Windows, you should create a extended > > partition with type f (Win95 Extended LBA). > > Hmm, you may be right. I didn't touch that. So its partition type is > still the default value - Linux(82) > > But i have data on sda5 already. Can i change the file system type(i > guess partition type refers to primary/logical, right?), i.e., change > from linux to win95 Extended LBA, without damaging the data?
I think there is no way to keep the data while you are going to change the partition type and re-format it. You may backup the data first. > > > Change your sda2 partition type to f. (I guess sda2 is your extended > > partition) And re-created sda5, then re-format sda5 with vfat may helps > > you solve this problem. > > There's nothing on sda2. I don't know why the removable hard disk skips > sda2, sda3 and sda4. Actually, i'm confused with `mac-fdisk -l's > output. Can't figure out which is the extended partition. The partition map of PC harddisk are different from the Mac one. So do NOT use mac-fdisk, since you expect it can be worked on Windows. Use pmac-fdisk instead. > > -- > William > > ((email . "[EMAIL PROTECTED]") > (blog . "http://matchsticker.mysmth.net")) -- Regards, GONG Jie Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]