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shira
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 Posted: Wed Aug 28, 2002 12:14 am Post subject: DOS partition table |
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I'm trying to install gentoo on my new rig and fdisk says than there is no DOS partition table and that all my data is going bye bye when a new one is written to disk
my partitions are as follows
[win 2k _|_ 2GB | NTFS _] Pri
[data ___|_ 4GB | FAT32 ] Pri
[programs| 20GB | NTFS _] Pri
[- ______|~44GB | - ____] Sec
its an 80GB disk so the other ~40 was meant for linux but fdisk won't let me create partitions even though I created a secondary partion for them to go on |
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pjp
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| Posted: Wed Aug 28, 2002 12:24 am Post subject: |
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What are the actual command(s) that you type causing this error?
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shira
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| Posted: Wed Aug 28, 2002 12:52 am Post subject: |
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| #fdisk /dev/hda |
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rac
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| Posted: Wed Aug 28, 2002 12:56 am Post subject: |
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| shira wrote: | | #fdisk /dev/hda |
...and then what commands from within fdisk?
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shira
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| Posted: Wed Aug 28, 2002 12:59 am Post subject: |
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| rac wrote: | | shira wrote: | | #fdisk /dev/hda |
...and then what commands from within fdisk? |
it says that there is no DOS partition table at the start and I am unable to see any of my partition in fdisk |
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shira
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| Posted: Wed Aug 28, 2002 10:22 pm Post subject: |
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| anyone? |
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WarMachine
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| Posted: Wed Aug 28, 2002 11:38 pm Post subject: |
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| I had this problem right when I built my system, I retardedly mismatched the primary and secondary IDE so my hard drive was /dev/hdc and cd was /dev/hda |
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shira
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| Posted: Thu Aug 29, 2002 12:14 am Post subject: |
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| WarMachine wrote: | | I had this problem right when I built my system, I retardedly mismatched the primary and secondary IDE so my hard drive was /dev/hdc and cd was /dev/hda |
fdisk does recognize that it is an 80GB disk |
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pjp
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| Posted: Thu Aug 29, 2002 12:25 am Post subject: |
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What is the exact error message? The only think I can think of is to search for it with Google.
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rac
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| Posted: Thu Aug 29, 2002 12:29 am Post subject: |
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Not that I will likely be able to recommend anything based on the answer, but someone might: what software did you use to partition the disk in the first place?
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shira
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| Posted: Thu Aug 29, 2002 2:10 am Post subject: |
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| rac wrote: | | Not that I will likely be able to recommend anything based on the answer, but someone might: what software did you use to partition the disk in the first place? |
the windows install |
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sn1987a
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| Posted: Fri Aug 30, 2002 4:56 pm Post subject: Usual MS tricks? |
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| IIRC, starting with W2K, by default MS is using a new format for the partition table. I haven't looked into it recently, but I beleive the newer versions of fdisk are supposed to be able to handle it. |
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arkane
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| Posted: Sun Sep 01, 2002 6:16 am Post subject: Re: Usual MS tricks? |
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| sn1987a wrote: | | IIRC, starting with W2K, by default MS is using a new format for the partition table. I haven't looked into it recently, but I beleive the newer versions of fdisk are supposed to be able to handle it. |
I used win2k to partition my drive when I first started with this system. (couple months ago) I used NTFS and set up I think 20 gigs of this drive for win2K, and left the rest untouched. (this was during the setup of win2k) Actually, if anyone remembers back that far, they'll remember me posting about the drive not being able to be "initialized" properly through linux and I had to set it up under Win2K in order for Linux to even recognize it properly lol.
fdisk with gentoo never had a problem with it after that. |
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