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Re: harddisk partition problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Statux)
Mon Oct 26 03:23:14 1998
Reply-To: "Statux" <statux@bigfoot.com>
From: "Statux" <statux@bigfoot.com>
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Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 03:21:19 -0500
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Seriously, WHY would you put 98, NT, and Linux all on one system?
That is completely pointless. MAJOR waste of a system too.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Ken Hsu <kch@usc.edu>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Date: Monday, October 26, 1998 2:53 AM
Subject: harddisk partition problems
>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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