Re: partitioned drive in linux. Windows gives me a phantom drive letter

From: Spongebob (NadaSpam_at_adelphia.net)
Date: 01/24/05

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Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 05:24:10 -0500

    Chris Lale wrote:

    > On Sun, 2005-01-23 at 19:03 -0500, Spongebob wrote:
    >> This is really bizzare.
    >>
    >> First drive, hda
    >> 1 ext2 (1G)
    >> 2 vfat (20G) D:
    >> 3 extended
    >> 5 vfat (20G) F:
    >> 6 ext2 (20G)
    >> 7 ext2 (20G)
    >> 8 ext2 (2.8G)
    >> 9 vfat (20G) G:
    >> 4 ext2 (56G)
    >>
    >> Second drive, hdd
    >> 1 vfat (5G) C:
    >> 2 swap (2G)
    >> 3 ext2 (10G)
    >> 4 vfat (22G) H:
    >>
    >> All of the vfats show up in windows, with the letters given above.
    >> Additionally, I get an E:, with a size that corresponds to H:. I can
    >> acces E:, format it, and even write files to it. When I reboot, the files
    >> are still there. In all respects, it behaves like a real drive. But
    >> there's no partition for it! Looking in linux, the files added to E: in
    >> windows aren't there. Go back to windows and there they are. It shows up
    >> in the windows System Information window with "logical information" but
    >> no "physical information".
    >>
    >> Does anyone have any idea what this is about?
    >>
    >>
    >>
    > I seem to remember that someone mentioned recently on the list that
    > Windows has an unfixed bug: it creates a non-existent drive letter if
    > the last extended partition is not a windows partition.
    >
    > Hth
    >
    > Chris

    The last extended partition is hda9, which is a windows partition. 

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