Problem with accessing a partition
My 160GB Western Digital (48-bit LBA), PATA hard disk (the only HD I have on
this machine) is for a reason partitioned as follows: C: (Win98se, primary, 14.5GB), * (WinXP, primary, 30.6GB), D: (logical, 11.8GB), E: (logical, 7.6 GB) and * (unallocated, primary, 87.5 GB). All partitions are FAT32, created with the aid of Partition Magic (of Power Quest). Both OSs have been installed independently of each other. I keep documents and photos on D: and some older backups on E:. Both partitions are easily accesible for the active OS. Yesterday, I tried to cross the 32GB limit (by 3GB) on the WinXP partition, by resizing it (while in a hidden status). I did it with the aid of Partition Magic 8.0 in Win 98se. After this resizing WinXP seemed to work OK and I could easily access the files on the D: and E: partitions. However, I was unable to access files on D: from Win98se - their names were scrumbled. Strangely enough files on E: were accesible. After resizing the WinXP partition down to the previous size, clicking on D: issued a message of the type: “D:\ is not accessible, a system device doesn’t work”. However, restarting Win98se returned everything to normal. Do you have any idea about the reason of such a behavior? Is there any chance to use bigger than 32 GB WinXP partition on my system without compromising normal work of Win98se? Thanks for your help, Andrew |
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