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This was written by "Paul Richards (Pauldoo)" in uk.comp.os.linux...
|> 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?

	IME MS-DOS (and thus Windows) typically has trouble finding DOS
partitions if there are any non-DOS partitions earlier in the partition
table, and gets horribly confused.
	Reorder things so that all your DOS partitions come first, then
your non-DOS partitions, that might help. Usually I give DOS the first
three primary partitions on a hard drive, and then put all my non-DOS
partitions in the extended/ logical partition(s). An example from my
system;

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Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1247 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *         1       261   2096451    6  FAT16
/dev/hda3           415       621   1662727+   6  FAT16
/dev/hda4           622      1247   5028345    5  Extended
/dev/hda5           622       673    417658+  83  Linux
/dev/hda6           674       881   1670728+  83  Linux
/dev/hda7           882       959    626503+  83  Linux
/dev/hda8           960       985    208813+  83  Linux
/dev/hda9           986      1011    208813+  83  Linux
/dev/hda10         1012      1115    835348+  83  Linux
/dev/hda11         1116      1247   1060258+  83  Linux

Disk /dev/hdb: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 524 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdb1   *         1       130   1044193+   6  FAT16
/dev/hdb2           131       195    522112+   6  FAT16
/dev/hdb3           196       260    522112+   6  FAT16
/dev/hdb4           261       524   2120580    5  Extended
/dev/hdb5           261       276    128488+  82  Linux swap
/dev/hdb6           277       524   1992028+  83  Linux

Disk /dev/hdd: 64 heads, 63 sectors, 528 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 4032 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdd1   *         1       130    262048+   6  FAT16
/dev/hdd2           131       195    131040    6  FAT16
/dev/hdd3           196       260    131040    6  FAT16
/dev/hdd4           261       528    540288    5  Extended
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	Yes, I know hda is a bit screwed up, that's because I'm
rearranging it :-) .

		dunc
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