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Re: 2 extended partitions in one disk

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From: Peter B. Steiger
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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Subject: Re: 2 extended partitions in one disk
Date: 1999/07/14
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