Hard disk trouble
Kernal32
I guess you guys are fed up with my 40GB harddrive questions!!
I also have a 10GB drive. I created a "extended dos partition" for the whole
drive.
I have partitioned the 40GB drive. 6GB (where windows is installed) and 10GB
for other apps.
Mandrake then used the rest of the unpartitioned drive for its use. However
it did something strange and put some "loop back device" thing on the 10GB!!
Then when I boot into windows there is an mirror image of the 10GB drive
except that the new mirror doesn't have data and cannot be accessed. I
posted this on the Mandrake NG and one person replied it has happened to him
a long time ago.
Anyway I deleted the partitions on the 10GB drive with MS fdisk and the
"mirror" went away BUT here is the problem.
If I create a "Primary Dos Partition" the drive formats correctly.
HOWEVER if I make the whole drive an "extended dos partition" it formats BUT
at the end it gives an error about a problem with the "partition table"
If I format in windows, it seems to work, but only till the next reboot.
Then windows says the drive is not accessible.
I then used a tool in Mandrake called DiskDrake and it shows that 99% is FAT
WHILE 1% is "Other". It doesn't know what file system it is!
Diskdrake knows the following types: FAT, EXT2, SWAP.
Formatting in DiskDrake is no use, has it creates a Primary Does Partition.
HELP!!
Is there a tool I can download, to get my disk back to a "factory"
condition?
Surakshan
David D. Huff Jr.
> I
> posted this on the Mandrake NG and one person replied it has happened to him
> a long time ago.
Yes and what did he tell you about the 34 Gig barrier?
>
> Anyway I deleted the partitions on the 10GB drive with MS fdisk and the
> "mirror" went away BUT here is the problem.
Nothing went away but the 7.3 Gig partition that you could not format.
>
> If I create a "Primary Dos Partition" the drive formats correctly.
> HOWEVER if I make the whole drive an "extended dos partition" it formats BUT
> at the end it gives an error about a problem with the "partition table"
> If I format in windows, it seems to work, but only till the next reboot.
> Then windows says the drive is not accessible.
It can't find the end of the partition. Your statement about the primary
dos partition does not necessarily hold true since dos fdisk was never
designed to handle that size and winbloat will re-write the partition
boundary.
>
> I then used a tool in Mandrake called DiskDrake and it shows that 99% is FAT
> WHILE 1% is "Other". It doesn't know what file system it is!
> Diskdrake knows the following types: FAT, EXT2, SWAP.
>
> Formatting in DiskDrake is no use, has it creates a Primary Does Partition.
You've got DOS on the brain.
>
> HELP!!
> Is there a tool I can download, to get my disk back to a "factory"
> condition?
>
> Surakshan
A large magnet should do.
The fact is you're BIOS and windows combination cannot handle the hard
drive. What you should do is give up on windows and allow Mandrake to
have the entire disk that also would have elimiated your last 6 posts
and you would be enjoying new freedoms right now instead of worrying if
Bill Gates is going to catch you enjoying yourself.
I know there are still applications the moneygrabbers who have refused,
so far, to convert to Linux, like tax programs and money management
stuff. So I bought VMware while it was still cheap and run it at the
click of a button. It takes 5 seconds to resume from suspend mode and
less than that to go away.
I once had 5 operating systems on 1540 Mb that got old. Multi-boot
sucks, you adapt, you change or you buy another box.
Kernal32
"David D. Huff Jr." <David...@computer-critters.com> wrote in message
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Jan Eric Andersson
> I can't believe that this is happening.
> I guess you guys are fed up with my 40GB harddrive questions!!
> I also have a 10GB drive. I created a "extended dos partition" for the
> whole drive.
Okay, so you want to use that under windows - fine, we'll disregard it from
now on.
> I have partitioned the 40GB drive. 6GB (where windows is installed) and
> 10GB for other apps.
> Mandrake then used the rest of the unpartitioned drive for its use.
> However it did something strange and put some "loop back device" thing on
> the 10GB!!
Oh? Are you by any chance doing a "lnx4win" installation? This is AFAIK the
only situation where Mandrake will use a loopback filesystem.
> If I create a "Primary Dos Partition" the drive formats correctly.
> HOWEVER if I make the whole drive an "extended dos partition" it formats
> BUT at the end it gives an error about a problem with the "partition
> table" If I format in windows, it seems to work, but only till the next
> reboot. Then windows says the drive is not accessible.
Is your addressing scheme in your BIOS set to "LBA"?
> I then used a tool in Mandrake called DiskDrake and it shows that 99% is
> FAT WHILE 1% is "Other". It doesn't know what file system it is!
Probably blank space.
> Formatting in DiskDrake is no use, has it creates a Primary Does
> Partition.
Not unless you tell it to.
> Is there a tool I can download, to get my disk back to a "factory"
> condition?
Fdisk.
Jan Eric
Steve Campbell
> please, I need a serious answer!
MANDRAKE 8.0
it doesnt create any wierd drives.