[H-GEN] Strange disk problem

[Harry Phillips]

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I have two HDD's inside my PC at home.

The primary has Mandrake 9.1 with a primary partion and one swap and my 
/home partition in the extended partition.

The slave disk has Win98 on it for my son to play his games on.

I just wiped and re-installed Win98 on the second disk, after I did that 
I connected my primary HDD again. Win98 has a D drive that it can't 
read. The D during the install has become the E.

It keeps asking me if I want to format it. Somehow it can now see one of 
the ext3 partitions on the primary drive, it couldn't do that before.

Apart from disconnecting the data cable to the primary drive every time 
I want to boot into Win98, how can I get it to stop "seeing" the linux 
partition and wanting to format it?

Does anyone know how my Win98 achived this ability all of a sudden[1]?

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Regards,
Harry Phillips


[1] My theory is that during the 'Windows Updates' I did MS gave Win98 
seek and destroy instructions in regards to ext partitions to try and 
rid the world of the nasty profit eating linux.





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