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harddisk partition problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ken Hsu)
Mon Oct 26 03:10:00 1998
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 00:09:37 -0800 (PST)
From: Ken Hsu <kch@usc.edu>
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Just wondering if there are any harddrive partition experts out there....
I just got a harddrive from a friend (a Maxtor 6.8gb, which is about
6.4gb). I planned to have windows98, windows NT and linux partitions all
on this same harddrive...
Anyway, since Windows NT does not recognize fat32 partitions, I
partitioned the harddrive (using windows98 fdisk) to 3 fat16 partitions
(primary dos partition, extended partition containing two logical drives).
The rest of the space (about 1 gb free) I have intended for use with
Linux...
I was planning to first put windows98 on there, then windows NT, and then
boot into linux (residing on my second harddrive) to complete the boot
process by using linux's fdisk to create an ext2 partition.
Anyway, after I installed windows98, and are trying to install windows NT
on my primary dos partition, windows NT complained that the fat16
partition is damaged or unformatted and wouldn't install itself?? I
thought this was really odd, so I boot into linux and tried using fdisk on
/dev/hda, but linux's fdisk also complained that it couldn't read the
parittion table?/
What I don't understand is that, if the partition table cannot be read,
how can I actually boot and run windows98 without no problems?? does
anyone know??
any help is greatly appreciated....
Ken
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Ken C. Hsu <kch@usc.edu>
University of Southern California
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