I was installing Linux Mandrake (RedHat 6.5) on a 3.4GB HDD (Slave).
1.96GB = (For Win98) 1st partition
1.44GB = (Was for Win98) 2nd partition (Extended Dos w/ logical Dos)
The problem arose when I deleted the logical Dos partition inside the
extended DOS.
I Then installed two linux native partitions and a linux swap inside the
extended DOS
partition. Well... After writing the new partition table, I was prompted
to re-boot... so I did.
Then, fdisk, during install of Linux, could not read my second hard
drive (The one I made all
the above changes to). fdisk, in ms-dos, read the extended partition,
but could not read or delete
the logical ones. So right now, only the first 1.96GB of my 3.4GB HDD is
usable.
also, i right clicked on drive E: (Second partition in second hard
drive) in windows 98, and formated
the drive... it formated it, but it displays the partitions capacity at
168GB!! The disk looks usable in
'98 but there is obviously something wrong. Fdisk can't fix it and I
cant format it properly.
I was wondering if anyone new how I can get back that disk space.
thanks in advance...
