On Tuesday 11 March 2003 07:35 am, Adolfo Bello wrote: > On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 08:20, et wrote: > > I KNOW that there are 3rd party utilities to allow win2k/xp to use EXT2 > > filesystems, but I would not trust them as much as I trust linus on any > > filesystem, and sure would HATE to loose important data just cause I > > wanted to try stuff out.... > > that said NTFS file systems can sit anywhere on the disk, as long as a > > valid MS/WIN filesystem is on the first logical partiton of the first IDE > > channel hard drive master. if you format the disk for linux only, and go > > to install win2k later, you will have problems, unless you left at least > > 10 megs as a dos partion in the begining. > > I going to snip part of Civileme post on January 27: > > "Now this is where Windows has been programmed to fail. As soon as it > sees a non-windows type in the extensions, it stops traversing the > chain, and will miss any windows partitions logically beyond that. > Windows XP home edition also messes with this table in unpredictable > ways, often trying to make the LAST extended partition (if not a Windows > type) into a primary, so that it is COMPLETELY UNSAFE to install XP > after linux. It is possible to recover the problem once you can analyze > it with the rescue CD, but definitely neither for the faint of heart or > the newbie. > > So prior to XP, windows misses any partitions that numerically follow > linux partitons, and beginning with XP it sabotages the partition table > to make linux unbootable," > > I just took for granted what he said.
this is correct, however I believe Civileme is refering to the boot-up record, not the ability to see and read files. I have WINme, Mandrake 9.0 and WIN2K installed all over my drives here is what # df says; Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on dev/hda7 7439692 4005108 3056660 57% / /dev/hdc5 5067904 2916396 2151508 58% /home /dev/hda4 4433936 2420300 2013636 55% /mnt/nt /dev/scd1 664392 664392 0 100% /mnt/scd1 /dev/hda1 28918880 19773728 9145152 69% /mnt/win_c /dev/hdc6 4858156 2261060 2597096 47% /mnt/win_c2 /dev/hda6 9010880 1393096 7617784 16% /mnt/win_d /dev/hda8 2891540 305228 2586312 11% /var so you can see that on my hdc while hdc5 is /home hdc6 s a fat win partiton that both OSs have no problem seeing and using. something I just noticed is that while on the graphic for diskdrake it looks like (all on one line) -[hda1/winME]-[hda5/linux swap]-[hda7/linux /] - [hda6/fat winD] - [hda8 /var] - [4gigs empty] - [hda4 /winNT] - so maybe there is something I did that I am not aware of that keeps MS thinking the hda4 partion is the last partiton on this drive and hda/5,6,7,8 are in the middle of the drive. Hopefully some one can explain who did that for me? was it diskdrake when I made the space available for win2k?
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