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Problem with accessing a partition
On Sat, 22 May 2010 04:19:01 -0700, Andrew
wrote: 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. This makes sense but it isn't really necessary. I used to setup disks with two primary partitions (and an extended one) and install a backup version of the OS on the second primary one. If the user got into big problems I would change the bootable flag from the first to the second and start the PC using the backup OS. Then I could fix the real OS in the first partition and then restore the bootable flags so the PC ran normally. It sounds like Partition Magic changes the type of the partition (e.g. 0C to FF) to make it inaccessible. This shouldn't cause a problem unless you want to access the disabled partition (e.g. to back it up). Partition info a Win98se 0C (Hex) FAT32X WinXP 1C FAT32X Extended 0F Extended X D: 0C FAT32 E: 0B FAT32 It looks like D: is FAT32X (type 0x0C) which is good. I don't like the fact that E: is type 0x0B. Win98 IO.SYS has a problem when encountering a mix of LBA and CHS volumes in the extended partition. Can you change the type of D: from 0x0B to 0x0C ? I think this will fix the problem. If you can't then please check http://home.exetel.com.au/~phelum/w98.htm to read about my fix for Win98 IO.SYS. Cheers, -- Steven |
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