Hi Windows ME and even the boot floppy doesnt recognise the partition via the 512 bytes but the partition id.... I think win 2k does that.. . I had once a frozen partition magic resizing ... PM had set the partitoin type to its own registered partition type and my friends partition wasnt getting detected even in the boot floppy but win 2k use to detect it Under linux I could mount the partition using mount -t vfat...
Kisor did you try keeping it fat32 and mounting it via vfat -t vfat??
Also.... maybe that partition IS FAT 16??? thus the prob... manne after installing win 98 you didn ot convert it to fat 32 which has to be done manually... -Ritesh --- Philip S Tellis philip.tellis@iname.com wrote:
On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, kishor bhagwat wrote:
I did something pretty weird..i changed the
partition type of hda2
to FAT16, (it was FAT32 formatted), blanked out
its first 512 bytes,
and then mounted it.. voila, it works now!! IO
works
alright..everything's hunky dory..but i aint going
to explain what i
I could try an explanation. Windows FAT partitions are not identified by the partition id in the partition table, but by the first 512 bytes on the partition. If these bytes are zeroed out, then it is a FAT partition. Check what Windows fdisk reports this partition as, and check what linux fdisk reports it as. Post the results.
Philip
-- We'll pivot at warp 2 and bring all tubes to bear, Mr. Sulu!
Visit my webpage at http://www.ncst.ernet.in/~philip/ Read my writings at http://www.ncst.ernet.in/~philip/writings/
MSN philiptellis Yahoo! philiptellis AIM philiptellis ICQ 129711328
__________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Find a job, post your resume. http://careers.yahoo.com