[99389] in RedHat Linux List
RE: Keeping Windows95/98 from seeing Linux drives?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeremy Domingue)
Sat Nov 14 00:55:12 1998
From: "Jeremy Domingue" <jer@cybersurfers.net>
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Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 21:53:03 -0800
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Well, I took a second look at how my Linux drive was set up, and it turned
out that I had an extended partition in addition to my to Linux partitions
(how it got there I have no idea). Deleting the extended partition fixed the
'problem'... Windows 98 no longer seees that drive and thus no longer
bothers me to format it.
Thanks for the help...
Jeremy Domingue
jer@cybersurfers.net
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Matt Housh [mailto:jaeger@morpheus.net]
>Sent: Friday, November 13, 1998 10:16 AM
>To: redhat-list@redhat.com
>Subject: Re: Keeping Windows95/98 from seeing Linux drives?
>
>
>> > 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
>
>------------------------------------------------------------
>Matt Housh email: mhoush@utulsa.edu
>Microcomputer Specialist The University of Tulsa
>Engineering and Natural Sciences
>
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>
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