On Fri, 2001-12-07 at 07:36, Felix Miata wrote:
> Foe those who don't know, the windoze driver that handles the HD
> filesystems was kludged shortly before FAT32 was foisted upon the
> public. For post-FAT32 windoze 9x/ME to work right on any HD larger than
> 8 Gb that has on it any file system it is supposed to access other than
> C:, the extended partition type *must* be 0Fh for reliable operation. If
> you have a FAT16B or FAT32 logical partition inside of a standard 05h
> extended, the probable result of creating a new table with Linux or any
> other partitioning tool besides windoze FDISK or Partition Magic, it is
> only a matter of time before windoze presents you with serious HD
> trouble.
I only have reiserfs and linux swap partitions within the extended
primary partition. The FAT32 sits in the first primary partition. Would
this configuration qualify for the problem your describing ?
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