Messages in this thread | | | From | "Khimenko Victor" <> | Date | Sat, 6 Feb 1999 00:24:06 +0300 (MSK) | Subject | Re: help me please |
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In <19990205203643.AAA15363@pcs486> Mattthew D. Pitts (mpitts@suite224.net) wrote: MP> Guys,
MP> ---------- >> From: Khimenko Victor <khim@sch57.msk.ru> >> To: hsmith@dockside.co.za; roshan@MahindraBT.com >> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu >> Subject: RE: help me please >> Date: Thursday, February 04, 1999 9:03 AM >> >> In <XFMail.990204152827.hsmith@dockside.co.za> hsmith@dockside.co.za MP> (hsmith@dockside.co.za) wrote: >> > in fdisk there in the delete partition option there is a delete NON-DOS >> > partition .. use that :) >> >> Please think before write. Windows98 fdisk could remove ONLY primary MP> non-dos >> partitions, not extended ones. You could remove all Linux partitions with >> Linux's fdisk (just not forgot to run "FDISK /MBR" from Windows98 "MS-DOS MP> mode" >> to completely remove LiLo!) but this will not help Windows98 any jot -- MP> Linux >> will be rmoved but Windows98 will not work anyway :-)) If partition table MP> is >> not corrupt then Linux COULD NOT affect Windows98 when it's not running! MP> If he's installed Redhat Linux, it can. The 'findfast' utility is trying to MP> scan the extended partition that Disk Druid uses to create the Linux MP> partitions. His best bet is to use linux fdisk to create primary partitions MP> on the drive.
No. findfast does not scan partitions -- it scan disks ! And if Windows98 will not find Linux partition (and how Windows98 could find partition of type 83 anyway?) what bad could happens with it ? BTW I'm have the following configuration here: hda1->Windows 98 (FAT12, boot) hda2->Windows NT (FAT12, boot) hda3->MS DOS 6.22 (FAT12, boot) hda4->Extended hda5->Windows 98 (FAT32, D:\WINDOWS) hda6->Windows NT (NTFS, D:\WINNT) hda7->Windows 3.11(FAT16, D:\WINDOWS) hda8->Linux native(EXT2FS) hda9->Linux swap and Windows98 is NOT confused by both Linux partitions and Windows NT (NTFS) partitions !
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