GONG Jie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tuesday 08 November 2005 21:19, William Xu wrote: >> Hi there, >> I have an 80G removable hard disk, which i divided into 40G xfs + 40G >> vfat partitions. (In detail, cfdisk first, then mkfs.xfs and mkfs.vfat >> for each partition.) >> on linux, i could mount both partitions - sda1, sda5 successfully. But >> on windows (i wish it could access the 40G vfat partition), it can't >> recognize the disk. What's wrong here? >> > > I think the problem is the partition type of the extended partition. I > guess you create a extended partition with type 5 (Extended) or 85 > (Linux extended). But for Windows, you should create a extended > partition with type f (Win95 Extended LBA).
Hmm, you may be right. I didn't touch that. So its partition type is still the default value - Linux(82) But i have data on sda5 already. Can i change the file system type(i guess partition type refers to primary/logical, right?), i.e., change from linux to win95 Extended LBA, without damaging the data? > Change your sda2 partition type to f. (I guess sda2 is your extended > partition) And re-created sda5, then re-format sda5 with vfat may helps > you solve this problem. There's nothing on sda2. I don't know why the removable hard disk skips sda2, sda3 and sda4. Actually, i'm confused with `mac-fdisk -l's output. Can't figure out which is the extended partition. -- William ((email . "[EMAIL PROTECTED]") (blog . "http://matchsticker.mysmth.net";)) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
