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

From: Adrian Levi (linuxkernel_at_optushome.com.au)
Date: 01/26/05

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    Spongebob wrote:
    >>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:
    >>

    <Snipped>

    > Apparently, windows doesn't want any other windows partitions on hdd. I've
    > wiped the drive and tried primary and logical, with and without linux
    > partitions. They all give me the same phantom drive problem. It's strange,
    > but I'm guessing it has something to do with the virtual swap done in grub
    > to get windows to boot off hdd.
    >
    > My solution was to partition hdd as follows:
    > 1 fat32 C:
    > 2 swap
    > 3 ext2
    >
    > The rest of my windows partitions are on hdda. Phantom drive is gone.
    > Everything checks out in windows and in linux.

    The problem is caused by windows inability to deal with more than one
    primary partition. Partitions 1..4 are primary, 5 onwards are logical.

    If you made your hda2 d: and hdd4 H: logical partitions the problem
    would go away.

    Adrian 

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