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Re: Keeping Windows95/98 from seeing Linux drives?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matt Housh)
Fri Nov 13 13:16:09 1998
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 12:15:43 -0600 (EST)
From: Matt Housh <jaeger@morpheus.net>
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> > Windows sees it, it is constantly bugging me to
> format the drive... it would
> > be nice to just have Windows ignore the darn thing!
This may not be the same problem, but when I first switched from
95 to 98, SOMEHOW I got an extra partition created on my linux drive.
Here's the setup, and why it's so strange: My first drive is a 6.4G with
OpenSTEP and Windows98 on it. My second drive is a 2.6G with linux on it,
partitioned as such:
/dev/hdb1 - swap
/dev/hdb2 - /home
/dev/hdb3 - /
Right after I installed 98, I booted up, and windows found a drive
D all the sudden, and moved my cdrom to E. I looked at the properties for
the drive, and it was a 0M FAT partition... So I booted into linux and
started fdisk. fdisk now shows an ADDITIONAL partition:
/dev/hdb4 - 0M FAT16
Still using linux fdisk, I removed all the partitions on my second
drive and recreated them exactly as before so I wouldn't lose data. I
wrote the table, rebooted, and poof. It was gone. So I have no idea how 98
created that partition, but it's fixable..
Anyway, I realize this may not be the problem you describe, but if
anyone else has run across this, here's the answer.
Matt
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Matt Housh email: mhoush@utulsa.edu
Microcomputer Specialist The University of Tulsa
Engineering and Natural Sciences
"Preserving the right to arm bears..."
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