[H-GEN] Linux and Partitions

[Frank Brand]

Sandra Milne wrote:

> i have seen this on machines which have a windows 98
> partition. unfortunately it's been so long since i saw it that i can't
> remember if it was a 98 first edition or second edition problem. and the
> only way we got around it was to delete all partitions and start over. we
> couldn't seem to find our way out of it any other way. :-(
> 

Yep these machines did have a Windows partition on them but you can not
actually delete the extended partition using fdisk because the partition
table is corrupted. That is why you need to run the disk manager
software.

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Frank Brand

E-Mail:- fbrand at uq.net.au
Homepage:- http://www.uq.net.au/~zzfbrand

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