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Old May 21st 10, 11:53 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.disks.general
Steven Saunderson
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Default Problem with accessing a partition

On Tue, 18 May 2010 04:26:01 -0700, Andrew
wrote:

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).


Can you provide any more details about the partitions ?
a) Why doesn't the WinXP partition have a drive letter ? If they're all
FAT32 then Win98 should see them all.
b) Are the partitions FAT32 LBA (type 0x0C) or FAT32 CHS (type 0x0B) ?
c) Is the extended partition type 0x05 or 0x0F ?

I don't have any definite ideas about the problem but some more details
might help. Although the drive is 160GB you've only allocated about
73GB so it should all be accessible via 28-bit LBA.

Cheers,
--
Steven