SOLVED: Windows 98 sees one partition as both a D: drive and an E: drive

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From: Daniel Barclay
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1999 00:00

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I found the problem that causes Windows (98) to see one
partition as two drive letters:  

The BIOS was set to "NORMAL" (CHS) addressing, but the disk had
originally been partitioned under the LDA addressing mode.

I deleted all partition table entries, reset the BIOS to LBA
addressing, and re-partitioned (three under Linux, then one under
Windows); everything seems to be working now.

Daniel
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From: Daniel Barclay <dsb@smart.net>
Subject: SOLVED: Windows 98 sees one partition as both a D: drive and an E: drive
Date: 1999/09/26
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