I have already tried to format one dos partition on the drive. That works
without problems (I did the format with fdisk from windows 98 and then a
format ...
It did not help so far... I don't want to erase the existing linux
partitions on that drive.
Maybe i really end up erasing the drive completly. (Even if working linux
partitions are on that drive..)
Dietmar
Goswin Brederlow wrote:
> >>>>> " " == Dietmar Schnabel <dietmar.schnabel@aon.at> writes:
>
> > Hello 2 days ago I installed (as a test / comparison as i
> > normally only use Linux) Windows 2000 on one of my harddisks (I
> > have 2 IDE drives with 14 + 8 GB and 2 SCSI drives with 1 and 4
> > GB (Adaptec 2940 controller)
>
> > I have successfully installed Windows 2000 but found that after
> > installation of W2K i could not access the 4GB Harddisk on
> > Linux anymore. This is for me absolutly strange. Originally I
> > had only Linux partitions on this drive but now only W2K,
> > Windows 98 and Windows NT are able to access the drive. I can't
> > even access it with 'fdisk' on linux as it's completly
> > disappeared.
>
> I had a similar case with ide after leaving Windows 98 on after
> playing Siedler and there it deletet drive completly (no more windows
> on the drive :). Windows 98 went into suspend mode and after that the
> drive was dead. Not even the controler was found (also the CDrom was
> gone).
>
> Partitioning and formating the drive under dos brought it back under
> linux.
>
> We are not alone :)
> Goswin
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