Re: NO error in fdisk :D

[Helmut Leinfellner <e8426331@student.tuwien.ac.at>]

At 14:56 27.02.98 -0500, you wrote:
>HELMUT LEINFELLNER writes:
>> DOS fdisk gives:
>> 
>> 1 PRI DOS YESHUA 1000 FAT16 100%
>> 2 EXT DOS        1000       100%
>> 3 Non-DOS          64        23%
>> 4 Non-DOS        2047       100%
>> 
>> Partition 3 + 4 are Linux swap and Linux native, respectively.
>> DOS fdisk recognises the primary DOS partition (1), but not the extended
>> one (2). (This one is split into 4 logical partitions, each 250 MB
>> size.)
>
>
>     Did you create the DOS partitions in Linux or in DOS?  If you did
>it from Linux, you should delete the partition and recreate it using
>DOS's fdisk.  In general, partitions should be created using tools
>from the OS that will use them.

I tried, but DOS fdisk doesn't recognize the size of the hard drive correctly.
It says 283 MB when actually it is 4.3 GB !

Helmut



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