Re: partitioned drive in linux. Windows gives me a phantom drive letter
Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-01-23 at 19:03 -0500, Spongebob wrote:
>> This is really bizzare.
>>
>> First drive, hda
>> 1 ext2 (1G)
>> 2 vfat (20G) D:
>> 3 extended
>> 5 vfat (20G) F:
>> 6 ext2 (20G)
>> 7 ext2 (20G)
>> 8 ext2 (2.8G)
>> 9 vfat (20G) G:
>> 4 ext2 (56G)
>>
>> Second drive, hdd
>> 1 vfat (5G) C:
>> 2 swap (2G)
>> 3 ext2 (10G)
>> 4 vfat (22G) H:
>>
>> All of the vfats show up in windows, with the letters given above.
>> Additionally, I get an E:, with a size that corresponds to H:. I can
>> acces E:, format it, and even write files to it. When I reboot, the files
>> are still there. In all respects, it behaves like a real drive. But
>> there's no partition for it! Looking in linux, the files added to E: in
>> windows aren't there. Go back to windows and there they are. It shows up
>> in the windows System Information window with "logical information" but
>> no "physical information".
>>
>> Does anyone have any idea what this is about?
>
> In Win2k, there is
> "Control Panel"->"Administrative Tools"->"Computer Management"
>
> That presents a hierarchy, one of the choices of which is
> Storage->"Disk Management"
>
> That is the "modern" equivalent of the old DOS FDISK. It, or where
> ever it's hidden in your version of Windows, should help.
I'm using Win98.
If I have that, what will it do for me? Will it tell me what's wrong, or
let me hide that disk, or something?
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