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Old May 22nd 10, 12:19 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.disks.general
Andrew[_2_]
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Default Problem with accessing a partition

More details!
a. I run the WinXP Home edition.
If you assign the active partition, Partition Magic hides automatically the
other primary partitions, as having 2 active would call for disaster.
Therefore lack of the letter. If I want to start WinXP, then I make its
partition active and Win98 is automatically starred. My both OSs use the
letter C:, as working partition must be on the primary disk (disk 0) on the
partition C:. On the hard disk my WinXP partition is located directly after
the Win98 one.
b&c. My MoBo and hard disk support LBA48. My partitions, according to
Partition info a
Win98se 0C (Hex) FAT32X
WinXP 1C FAT32X
Extended 0F Extended X
D: 0C FAT32
E: 0B FAT32
Unallocated.
(The WinXP, D:, and E: partitions use also FAT extensions - VFAT LFNS)
I must add that after resizing the WinXP partition (from Win98) to 35GB, I
could make accesibility checks on D: without restarting computer to Win98.
Yet, the E: partition was accessible under these conditions.
Regards,
Andrew


"Steven Saunderson" wrote:

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
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