Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 16:05:28 +0000 From: "Matthew Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Phantom disks??
>From: Digby Tarvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >I have partitioned my hard disk (IBM 20GB) with 3 primary partitions >of about 1.5GB each, and the remainder in a Linux extended partion. > >My intention was to have the original Toshiba Windows95 in the >first partition, BSD Unix in the second (BSD needs a primary partition >which it sub-divides into its own partitions), the third partition reserved >for any other OS I want to run that needs a primary partition (eg NT, >OS-9000) etc. > >The problem is that when I installed Windows on the first partition, it >seemed to think that I had two additional drives (partitions) available. > >I had expected one additional drive, because partition 3 is currently >of >type FAT32, but it sees drives C:, D: and E:?? I had a very similar problem installing Redhat on a friend's system a few years back. Two non-existant partitions suddenly appeared in an existing Win95 single partition setup after installing Redhat, and I forget... it was either impossible to boot Win95, or it took AGES. And nothing could find the partitions that Windows was reporting. It was suggested to do a 'fdisk /mbr' thinking that the partition table had been corrupted. That didn't work. The concensus opinion was that I'd have to delete all partitions and re-install everything. But I had so much invested in the Win95 setup, I didn't want to take the time to do that. I figured out a workaround for the problem that worked well. I used Partition Magic to create 2 extra tiny logical partitions on the Windows primary, and hid the rest. I was able to reinstall Redhat and System Commander after that to manage booting OSs, and Win95 and Redhat lived happily with each other after that. Perhaps lilo or another Linux bootloader will work for you. But I'm assuming you made sure that you set those other non-Windows partitions to 'hidden' before you installed Windows on the first partition, right? Or are Linux partitions supposed to be invisable to Windows? I suspect that it was the Redhat installation that caused Windows to see two extra partitions, as Win95 had not seen them before. Matt _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
