Ok I'll try it tomorrow, too tired right now, also how do i get the zip icon 
back?
It like dissapeared from my desktop when I was doing all that mount and umount 
stuff.


On Monday 15 March 2004 12:41 am, bascule wrote:
> hmm, from what i read zip disks have only one 
> partition on them but it is 
> always number four, for some sort of compatibility reasons, i'd suggest
> making sure you have a backup of what's on it because i'm not sure that you
> should have that result, perhaps backing up in winxp and then making a
> filesystem on it using linux and seeing if that can be read by winxp,
> you can use fdisk to delete all partitions on it, then create just one,
> specifying its number as four, give it an id of 'c' for fat32, then make a
> filesystem on it:
> mkfs.vfat -F 32 /dev/sda4
> see if this shows up in winxp
> i'm afraid that apart from this i'm all out of ideas
>
> bascule
>
> On Monday 15 Mar 2004 2:28 am, acid wrote:
> > OK it list 4 partitions and they all say:
> > "partition has differnet physical/logical beginnings (non-linux?)"
> > "Does not end on cylinder boundary"


Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? 
Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Reply via email to