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Article #613Re: 2 extended partitions in one disk
From: Peter B. Steiger
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 00:00
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 00:00
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On Thu, 08 Jul 1999 08:50:57 GMT, Mark Madronio sez: >I'm having some problems. My main OS is Win98. I don't know if the >second partition came about while fiddling with Partition Magic 4 or >after installing Red Hat Linux 5.2 (and using its disk partition >software). > >Now I can't get rid of it. Win98 works fine, scandisk can't see any >problems at all. Partition Magic immediately quits with an error so I >can't use it. Norton disk doctor (v.2 for win95 but in DOS) sees it >but can't fix it. For Woz's sake, BE CAREFUL how you delete partitions with either of RH's partition editors. I managed to totally scramble my extended partition when I tried to delete the Linux partitions last week. Maybe this time around I'll make a backup before I try it again... and it would probably be a good idea to try it during the day with a lot of caffeine in me, rather than at 3AM after a hard day of work.
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