Re: Problem with hard drive and partitions
From: MikeyD (m_donaghy50_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 12/16/03
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Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 19:44:32 +0000
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> I installed Linux (Mandrake 8.0) using the free space in my windows
> partition. The problem is that I cannot see a drive unit assigned to the
> Linux partition from Windows. Windows thinks that all the space in the
> hard drive is available to it, but this is not true.
>
How did you put it in the space? If you just changed the size in fdisk, then
the FAT will say it's still 19 GB and windows will write to / read from all
of it. You need to shrink it with something like parted.
> If I see the partitions using the msdos utility fdisk, then I can see that
> there are two partitions: one for Windows and another one for Linux (as
> expected), but there is no drive unit (e.g., d: or e:) assigned to the
> Linux partition. I think the reason is that it has been created as an
> extended partition.
No, it's because windows can only read FAT/FAT32 filesystems. If you really
want to you could install linux to a UMSDOS partition. (or you can with
slackware anyway, it's called zipslack and you don't even need it to be on
a separate partition from windows.) but it will run slower. Or you could
use the explore2fs program if your linux partition is ext2 formatted. Of
course if it's reiserfs like mine, nothing will read it.
>
> Now, when I start windows, I get an error (sector cannot be found). If I
> run scandisk, it seems that there is some problem with the last cluster on
> the drive. But I'm afraid of letting scandisk to solve any problem. I
> wouldn't like to lose my data!! What can I do? Also, I get an error asking
> me to run "scanreg", but I run it without any effect (it seems not to
> respond and abort).
I think it may think that the whole thing should be a fat partition. You may
have to either shrink it with parted or reformat if that's the case. You
can try and salvage as much as possible from your linux partition but
you'll probably have to reformat that too.
>
> Please, any advice or hint would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Mandrake 8.0 -> 7 GB
> Windows 98 -> 12 GB (it appears to be 19 GB)
> Hard drive with 19 GB
>
> Thanks in advance
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