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Hi

i am not sure why you are posting promblems to do with M$ products here but i to did have
problems with MS fdisk the symtoms were

no visable drives in the logical partion and when i tried to delete the logical
partion it says there was a drive in the logical partion so i could not delete it
hum like to see an explanation for that ;)

the linux fdisk worked fine like it always does

cya
	James

On Thu, 11 May 2000 21:01:34 +0000, Paul Richards (Pauldoo) <pauldoo@dunvegan1.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>Hi,
>I've came across a weird problem with MS f(uck)disk in that it hangs on
>loading.
>
>I get the prompt about enabling large disk support and I press "y".  The
>screen goes blank and the IDE light goes on and the thing hangs.  OFC
>linux fdisk sees everything as just fine:
>
>Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1869 cylinders
>Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
>
>   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
>/dev/hda1   *         1       830   6666943+  83  Linux
>/dev/hda2           831      1023   1550272+   b  Win95 FAT32
>/dev/hda3          1024      1869   6795495    5  Extended
>/dev/hda5          1024      1853   6666943+  83  Linux
>/dev/hda6          1854      1869    128488+  82  Linux swap
>
>I'll spend more time tommorrow investigating possible sources of the
>problem but for now does anyone see anything obvious?
>
>The MS bootloader is in the MBR and lilo on hda1 if that matters...
>
>Here is my only guess:
>hda2 was partitioned and formated by linux (fdisk, mkdosfs) instead of
>by (ms fdisk, format)  -  I don't think this can be true though because
>the Win98 boot disk can see "C:" just fine.
>
>
>MS fdisk not loading isn't really a problem because I think I could
>install W98 on there anyway but I'd like to pinpoint the problem in case
>something bad happens because of it...
>
>TIA,
>-- 
>Paul Richards (Pauldoo) - http://www.pauldoo.co.uk


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