Re: [aclug-L] plug and pray!

["Greg House" <ghouse@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Michael Holmes wrote:


>I was at the install fest.  When I got home the 6.8g did not last, as when
>I run windows, it saw the missing partition and "automatically" as a
>personal favor formatted the missing drive!  Sounds like a vendetta to me!

Yep, I had the same thing happen to me (minus the install fest...)  Thank
you, Microsoft!  That Windows 98 install believed that it totally owned any
hunk of hardware it found out there!  On the system I was working on, it
destroyed three Linux partitions (2 partitions & swap) and a DOS partition
and rendered the remaining DOS partition unusable (at least unusable to it,
since it wouldn't install on it).  I had to boot a DOS floppy and use fdisk
to delete the remaining (apparently damaged) parition and start over.  I
created just the two DOS partitions and left the rest as freespace and it
worked ok that time.  After it'd done it's mayhem, THEN I went back and
reinstalled Linux and everything seems copasetic.

> Anyway after I finished committing various acts against my hardware, I sat
>down and retried.  you must format the hard drive all of it, and then run
>the drive magic program (my bios is prior '96, it does not recognize above
>2.1g).  Then before you setup windows, you must remove the target drive
>space(for LINUX) and then setup windows, with the missing drive space.
> That way it is used to not having the area. Then after all that go ahead
>and install LINUX.

Sounds exactly like what I had to do.

As to Clint's question, it was Windows 98. full install, recent OEM copy.  I
suppose I could get the build number if you really wanted to know, but
that'd mean I'd have to actually boot it.  I'd rather not.

Greg

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