Tracy Nelson on Sun, 14 Nov 1999 12:00:19 -0500 (EST) |
"LeRoy D. Cressy" wrote: > Notes: > > Some versions of the DOS fdisk program cannot handle an Ext2 or swap partition, > thus will not partition the drive properly to run in DOS mode. So it is > important to us the Linux fdisk program to make the drive into a sembalance of > something thas MS fdisk can handle. I ran into this just yesterday. I had a drive I removed from a Linux box and installed it in a spare machine. When I tried to install Win98 (for my brother-in-law) fdisk complained that it couldn't delete an extended partition that had logical drives in it. It also told me that there were no logical drives in the extended partition. Fortunately, I had a copy of the manufacturer's (Western Digital) installation disk. It wiped the partition table clean, and I was able to repartition it with no problems. -- Just junk food for thought... _______________________________________________ Plug maillist - Plug@lists.nothinbut.net http://lists.nothinbut.net/mail/listinfo/plug
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