Re: [Sheflug] Re: Multiboot Question

[Peter Collier <pecb [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2004-03-12 at 12:18, Netsonic wrote:
> Well its seems I've solved this myself, after a little snooping around.
> 
> I had a look at the problem disk using 3 different partition tools I have,
> plus fdisk.
> 
> Each one of them reported the NTFS partition and the Reiser partition in
> different locations within the partition table. (One even said they were in
> slots 3 and 4).
> 
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> In fact, having done an fdisk /mbr on the disk and then removing all of the
> partitions with the first tool, I loaded up the next one and they still
> showed up. Likewise for the third one.
> 
> So having deleted the two partitions with 3 different tools, and finally
> getting a 'No partiitons defined' message in fdisk (never thought I'd be
> glad to see that!) I've ran a low level formatter on the start of the disk,
> and then recreated them.
> 
> What a weird experience though!
> 
> At least its a chance to run my setups with a clean slate anyway.
> 
> Steve.
> 
Steve,
	I once had a similar experience many years ago. This is going back to
the days of ms-win3.1. IBM brought out OS2 WARP and I bought a copy to
try it out. I removed win3.1 installed OS2. All ok. Then I found some
programs were lacking so I created two partitions and multi-booting into
either win3.1 or OS2. 
	Some programs wouldn't work and curiously win3.1 and OS2 reported
different partition sizes. After a lot of digging around and reading I
found the answer. Whatever programs/operating system you use to make
partitions, use the same one to delete/alter the same partition. Don't
use operating system 1 to create/alter partitions that are going to have
operating system 2 etc. Some of the modern partitioning tools are better
now but perhaps you ran into the same problem that I had. e.g. your
expierence of tool 1 saying it had deleted a partition while tool 2 said
it was still there.

Peter C.
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