At 01:16 PM 11/15/01 +0530, Kishor wrote:
partition table : /dev/hda1 Win95 FAT32 C: /dev/hda2 FAT16 E: (FAT32 formatted ) /dev/hda3 Linux RedHat root /dev/hda5 Linux /boot /dev/hda6 swap /dev/hda7 Linux LFS root /dev/hda8 Linux SuSE root
regards, kishor
I dont think that the partition Id matters for windows... It may check for some magic numbers instead... I am not sure.
All FAT (12/16/32) volumes have a Bios Parameter Block which is located at the first sector of the volume. Now inside this BPB (structure) there are various fields with different information for the FAT type. Your zeroing out the first 512 bytes may have (permanently) damaged this information. Before zeroing out, if it is possible (philip?), you could have taken a backup??
A few questions for (quenching)my curiosity. If hda1 is C: then how come hda2 is E: ? Do you have a hdb installed ? I think if you have hdb also installed then generally you get hda1=C: and hdb1=D: etc.etc. But if you don't, then shouldn't hda2 be d: ? Also as hda5-8 are logical drives, where is their parent Extended partition? Is it hda4?
quasi
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