Repartition Windows XP drive with fips: unknown file system 07h
Gary Jenkins
I just purchased a new HP Pavilion XH575 notebook which came
loaded with Windows XP.
When attempting to repartition the 30Gig drive, fips version 2.0
exitted with the following error:
Error: Unknown file system: 07h
I'm not even sure what a file system of type 07 is!
Here is the partition table information:
Start End Start Number of
Part bootable Head Cyl. Sector System Head Cyl. Sector Sector Sectors MB
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1 no 1 0 1 A0h 254 2 63 63 48132 23
2 yes 0 3 1 07h 254 3647 63 48195 58556925 28592
3 no 0 0 0 00h 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 no 0 0 0 00h 0 0 0 0 0 0
I expected a view bumps in the road when loading Linux on this new
machine. I just didn't think they would come so early!
Any insight on how to proceed would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Gary
ma...@smellytel.com
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>Error: Unknown file system: 07h
>
>I'm not even sure what a file system of type 07 is!
>
>
Suspend to disk area ?
Charles Sullivan
According to the list of partition types that /sbin/fdisk knows about (hit
'l' at the fdisk main menu to display), type 07 is HPFS/NTFS. FIPS 2 only
handles FAT partitions. The latest Partition Magic may (or may not)
handle HPFS/NTFS, but may be the only solution other than reinstalling Win
XP in a smaller partition.
Steve Martin
>
> On Fri, 04 Jan 2002 14:37:31 -0500, Gary Jenkins wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I just purchased a new HP Pavilion XH575 notebook which came loaded with
> > Windows XP.
> >
> > When attempting to repartition the 30Gig drive, fips version 2.0 exitted
> > with the following error:
> >
> > Error: Unknown file system: 07h
Yep, it's choking on the NTFS filesystem.
> The latest Partition Magic may (or may not)
> handle HPFS/NTFS, but may be the only solution other than reinstalling Win
> XP in a smaller partition.
I just used it to shrink a 20-Gb XP Home partition down to 10 Gb,
and so far no ill effects at all. Jury's still out, but it's
looking promising. BTW, PM version was 7.0, bought for $50 from
Amazon.com.
Charles Sullivan
I assume you're sure your Win XP partition is NTFS - I understand there's
a choice between NTFS and FAT 32 when you install XP.
Rod Smith
Charles Sullivan <cwsu...@triad.rr.com> writes:
>
> According to the list of partition types that /sbin/fdisk knows about (hit
> 'l' at the fdisk main menu to display), type 07 is HPFS/NTFS. FIPS 2 only
> handles FAT partitions. The latest Partition Magic may (or may not)
> handle HPFS/NTFS, but may be the only solution other than reinstalling Win
> XP in a smaller partition.
Although Microsoft chose to re-use the 07 identifier for NTFS, it and
HPFS are two entirely different filesystems. PartitionMagic through
version 6.0 handles both, but PowerQuest dropped HPFS support with PM
7.0. :-( I know for a fact that PM 5.0 and above handles NTFS through
the version used in Windows 2000. (Earlier versions of PM can't handle
the NTFS 5.0 used by Win2K, but can cope with earlier versions of
NTFS.) I don't know if Windows XP's NTFS implementation introduces any
new wrinkles. There's probably information somewhere on PowerQuest's
Web site (http://www.powerquest.com).
--
Rod Smith, rods...@rodsbooks.com
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux & multi-OS configuration
Charles Sullivan
Thanks for the info Rod. Suspected continual twiddling of NTFS by
Microsoft could account for Linux still not having a stable write function
for that FS after all this time.
Steve Martin
> I assume you're sure your Win XP partition is NTFS - I understand there's
> a choice between NTFS and FAT 32 when you install XP.
Yep, 100% sure... checked the partition type with Linux fdisk
while trying to install RedHat, and XP itself reports an
NTFS filesystem when I check drive C:'s properties.
Gary Jenkins
Thanks to all those who replied. I purchased PartitionMagic V7.0
and it did the trick. On to the next hurdle ...
Charles Sullivan
Thanks Steve. (The OP just posted that he purchased PM 7.0 and it
solved his problem.)