9 Nov
2001
9 Nov
'01
6:07 p.m.
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
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