🚀 go-pugleaf

On Fri, 12 May 2000 16:06:15 GMT, afx567@bris.ac.uk <afx567@bris.ac.uk> wrote:
>On Thu, 11 May 2000, Andrew McDonald wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 11 May 2000 21:01:34 +0000,
>> Paul Richards (Pauldoo) <pauldoo@dunvegan1.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>> > I've came across a weird problem with MS f(uck)disk in that it hangs on
>> > loading.
>
>Talking about fdisk and windows, I have a problem too :)
>I have an 8.6 gig hard drive, 7gig is taken up by my ext2 usr and root
>partitions, a bit of swap, and then theres some free that I wanted to
>stick windows on so I could play unreal tournament better (linux version
>is dodgy with mouse/keyboard input :( - anyone know how to fix that? :) )
>Anyway.. there 980meg free for windows, thats enough for what I want..
>but.. if I run the MS fdisk it says something like
>"hmm, 8.6gig hard drive, 7.4gig used.. that means there um.. 2gig free,
>shall I make tha available to windows for you?"
>stupid fdisk.. so instead of using that I used linux fdisk, made a windows
>partition and installed windows
>windows scandisk has decided my drive is set up wrong, and in that DOS
>type bit before windows boots i was getting "Sector not found" errors
>which i just ignored cuz it was a dos/windows error. but now that ive
>installed a bit more on the drive (theres about 50meg free) i cant boot
>windows anymore because its files are on the parts of the drive which are
>"bad"

Probably because DOS, like LILO, can't seem to access cylinders above 1024.
Once booted into proper 32-bit Windows, it can see them OK.

At least, that was my explanation for why a Windows package that required a
couple of VXDs from my E: partition failed during boot, when it used to work
from an E: partition on a smaller (<1024 cyls) drive. Once I copied the
package to C: and fixed up the registry, all was well.

And they say Linux is hard to install? At least there are plenty of warnings
in docs and newsgroups about LILO's 1024 cylinder limit... which is fixed in
lilo-21.4.3, BTW...

>I know that the drive is fine, I know that the windows partition isnt
>overwriting any others, and it was (and is) definaely formatted as
>980meg..so does anyone know whats going on or shall I just delete it and
>go back to having an MS free machine again
>
>
>[BTW - im sorry this is a bit long AND more about windows than anything
>else when this is a linux mailing list]
>--
>Adam

Best Regards,
Alex.
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