Not sure if we're on the same page here; to be more clear, the empty space was
just that - it wasn't actually assigned to any Windows partition. But the
cylinders it occupied were between a Windows 'D' and "E' partitons that were
part of an extended Windows partition. Is this not a good idea? It worked fine
for Corel Linux installs (of which I did many). But DiskDrake did something
nasty...
On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, you wrote:
> I don't believe it's advisable to create a partition within space that's
> "physically situated within an extended Windows partition." Partitions
> inside partitions are a no-no... if I'm understanding the situation
> correctly, that is.
> I'm surprised Disk Drake let you do that. I'd consider that a bug.
>
> DvB
>
>
>
> On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Chuck wrote:
>
> > What I'd love to know is what went wrong when I had Mandrake 7.0 use a 2 GB
> > space which was unused space but physically situated within an extended
> > Windows partition (that was the easiest way to install Corel Linux). I didn't
> > actually resize any FAT partitions (just had DiskDrake create the needed
> > partitions in that space) but when I tried to run Partition Magic, it refuses to
> > start with an error "unable to identify the Windows partition". Further
> > investigation into PM error codes apparently reveals that I have a partition
> > table error where "the logical drive chain is incompatible" which is a highly
> > dangerous situation. The only solution is to delete and recreate all my
> > partitions on this drive.
> >
> > Now Win98 appears to run fine (except for Partition Magic) as does Linux. I'm
> > willing to back everything up (thank goodness for Ghost) and redo the
> > partitions but I'm worried what might happen the next time I install Mandrake
> > Linux. I guess I could (and perhaps should have) use Partition Magic to create
> > all my Linux partitions beforehand and then I could avoid having DiskDrake do
> > anything?
> >
> >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "David Russell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2000 6:09 AM
> > > Subject: [newbie] Re: 7.0 partioning ?
> > >
> > >
> > > > If i doesn't, I've used Partition Magic for windoze with _great_ success.
> > > >
