Don't know if it is like this, but my Windows 98 regularly switches drive
letters on me between my second partition HDD, and my Zip drive, supposed to
be E:. I regularly wind up with the letters reversed, and shortcuts not
working, etc. You might check to see if Windows is calling it something
else.
Don J.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul R" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, December 22, 2000 8:13 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Where did D: go?
> Hi, Caroll, this is a bug on the 7.1 installer when run in non-expert
> mode.
>
> There is a fix at
>
> http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/heliumlast.php3
> halfway down the page (2nd error scenario).
>
> Download the script and save it as a file and then run it using the
> command "perl linux_extended_fix.pl".
>
> Searching the list's database you can find explanations of what caused
> this problem, I'm not really sure off the top of my head (actually, I
> didn't understand it when I read it). :)
>
> Good luck! I hope this helps!
>
> -paul r
> Carroll Grigsby wrote:
>
> > I'm in the process of undergoing a major rebuild/reinstall. I've
> > replaced the old m/b with an Abit KT7 and Athlon 800. Neat. After I god
> > the system up and running, I said to decided to just kill all of the old
> > software and start over. That turned out to be not so neat. After
> > removing all of the old partitions from both drives with PM 6.0, I
> > installed Win98SE on the master -- 10 gb, two partitions. Sorta got
> > that working, so tonight I put LM 7.1 on the other drive (15 gb). Not
> > wanting to push things, I settled for the basic LM install. All went
> > well with one exception: I can access the win d: from Linux, but windows
> > can't. Says there ain't no such critter. Any ideas about how I can
> > convince windows that the extended partition is still there? If worse
> > comes to worse, I can always use windows' fdisk to recreate the
> > partition and reload the stuff that's in there, but I'd like to avoid
> > that hassle. (The thing that really ticks me off about this is that I've
> > done this before without a hitch. Guess I forgot something.)
> > Regards,
> > cmg
> >
> >
>
>
>
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