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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"

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]
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Adam
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