Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 23:02:06 +0100 From: Philip Nienhuis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] MaxBlast allegedly able to move Lib100 hibernation area?
Matt Hanson wrote: <snip> > >From: Philip Nienhuis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >When I boot DOS and run FDISK it reads the MBR and reports my extended > >drive partition size correctly (44 GB, just looked) but cannot see the > >FAT32 partitions > 8 GB. > > Huh... I just read that again. You're saying the 1st FDISK screen reports > primary and extended partition info correctly. But then at the bottom of > the screen there's an option to have the logical drive info displayed. Are > you saying that your FAT32 partitions are logical drives above the 8GB > boundary, and FDISK either can't display any data on them, or displays > incorrect data? Yes. To be more precise: FDISK shows the correct extended partition size *and* the logical FAT32 partitions below 8 GB, but not the ones above (nor can DOS access the latter). Your question suggests I don't have FAT32 partitions below 8 GB, but I do. Yet this may be due to some tweaking I did there. My extended partition is of type 5, not f as Win9x seems to want (perhaps if it were f some int13 routines are loaded in FDISK which then may see all logical partitions). It is 5 because otherwise OS/2 Warp 3 won't recognize the extended partition at all. Win2K, Linux and -a bit to my surprise- Win98 itself don't seem to care much about the extended partition type. All I know Win98 needs the FAT32 logical partitions beyond 8GB to be of type c rather than b. To answer your question from an earlier post: > > But if I load Bockey's LDS100CT in DOS FDISK can. > > I assume you're saying that you did that just before writing about it. > Right? You didn't try that when the drive was new, and un-partitioned, did > you? The behaviour described is without LDS100CT loaded. I just repeated it but now LDS100CT makes no difference - I guess because it can handle only up-to-32GB HDs, mine is 60 GB. But I remember it did work OK on my 15 GB hard disk: FDISK w/o LDS100CT: not able to see logical FAT32 > 8 GB FDISK with LDS100CT: able. FYI: I made the complete partitioning scheme on the 60 GB HD without any overlay. I used OS/2 Warp's FDISK, helped a bit by Linux fdisk or Diskdrake to change partition types later on (OS/2 can only make FAT16 (type 6) and HPFS (type 7, just like NTFS) partition types; I needed some partitions to be changed into FAT32 (c) and native linux types (82 and 83) plus a placeholder for thehibernation area (took a0 hex for that, = IBM hibernation partition). OS/2 and Linux fdisk bypass the BIOS. It may look a bit overly complex, but I wanted the entire partition scheme to be made in one action because I had bad experiences with Win98 not properly recognizing FAT32 partitions > 8 GB when the logical partitions were made in several different stages. In the end Win98 could properly see & use the logical FAT32 partitons beyond 8 GB once they had been formatted by Win2K's disk manager. > I just checked the partitions on my problem 20GB HDD with FDISK, and it was > able to report the size of both D: and E: logical drives on an extended > partition accurately. And that's both >with< EZ-Drive installed, and with > it removed. Can you see what type your extended partition is? Philip ************************************************************** 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 **************************************************************
