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> From: Khimenko Victor <khim@sch57.msk.ru>
> To: hsmith@dockside.co.za; roshan@MahindraBT.com
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
> Subject: RE: help me please
> Date: Thursday, February 04, 1999 9:03 AM
>
> In <XFMail.990204152827.hsmith@dockside.co.za> hsmith@dockside.co.za
(hsmith@dockside.co.za) wrote:
> > in fdisk there in the delete partition option there is a delete NON-DOS
> > partition .. use that :)
>
> Please think before write. Windows98 fdisk could remove ONLY primary
non-dos
> partitions, not extended ones. You could remove all Linux partitions with
> Linux's fdisk (just not forgot to run "FDISK /MBR" from Windows98 "MS-DOS
mode"
> to completely remove LiLo!) but this will not help Windows98 any jot --
Linux
> will be rmoved but Windows98 will not work anyway :-)) If partition table
is
> not corrupt then Linux COULD NOT affect Windows98 when it's not running!
If he's installed Redhat Linux, it can. The 'findfast' utility is trying to
scan the extended partition that Disk Druid uses to create the Linux
partitions. His best bet is to use linux fdisk to create primary partitions
on the drive.
Matthew D. Pitts
mpitts@suite224.net
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