Chkdsk and extended partitions

Article View: comp.sys.ibm.pc

Article #43865

#43865

From: Rick Mills
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 1990 14:09

19 lines
1083 bytes

	Here's another dumb question that I didn't find in the
"Commonly asked Questions" guide posted a while ago. 

	Why, after I install an extended partition on a non-standard
drive with Disk Manager or Speedstore, does chkdsk no longer work on
the extended partition? It reports "Invalid Media type".
	I understand that it is not a DOS partition, but what is chkdsk
looking for to work? What can I recommend to use in place of it?
	I reailze the newer versions of DOS take care of this, but
the drive isn't supported in the bios drive tables...

		Any help is appreciated!

-rick


-- 
Rick Mills {gargoyle.uchicago.edu,uunet.uu.net,spl1,ddsw1}!jpusa1.uucp!rick

Technical Details

Message-ID: <1236@jpusa1.UUCP>

Path:

arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!ncar!tank!gargoyle!jpusa1!rick

Show Full Headers

Complete Article Headers

Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!ncar!tank!gargoyle!jpusa1!rick
From: rick@jpusa1.UUCP (Rick Mills)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Chkdsk and extended partitions
Message-ID: <1236@jpusa1.UUCP>
Date: 10 Mar 90 14:09:59 GMT
Reply-To: rick@jpusa1.UUCP (Rick Mills)
Distribution: usa
Organization: JPUSA - Chicago, IL
Lines: 19