High, On 19 Feb 2002, Shri Shrikumar wrote: > > Hi All, > > I wonder if any of you can point me in the right direction here. STUPID > NT (I need it to do some work) destroyed my Windoze 98 (I need THIS to > play games) partition. > > Now fdisk says that Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary: > phys=(1023, 24, 30) should be (1023, 254, 63) > This should be no problem. I got this too for my harddisks, dunno where I got it from. I think it is a heritage from my windoze period (which uses fdisk).
> If fdisk knows what it should be, is there like a little command I can > use to fix it or even another program. > If this is the last parition, you can delete the partition and create a new one (that is, with Linux' fdisk). Write back the partition table, and noting happened with the data on your harddisk. But I do not recommend this because it is not a problem, but it will be if you try to fix it incorrectly. But still I do not see the problem. You have one harddisk on which win98, winNT and Linux is installed. Are win98 and NT on the same partition or on a different one? Which was first installed? Is your win98 partition really lost or have you just no access to it? We really need more information about your harddisk partitionning and windoze installation history to help you. > It is a true pain in the ass to re-install win98 and Ive already done > way too many times THIS lifetime. > > If only linux could run VB, Ms Access and all the Windoze games - I > could get rid of windows altogether. (and yes, I tried wine, it does > some of the things that I want it to but not enough to be able to just > format c) > Staroffice should have M$ compatible access, afaik. VB? jach. And have you tried winex from www.transgaming.com ? They are busy adding directx support. Greetz, Sebastiaan > I read some of the newsgroups saying that this doesnt matter - but it > should be said that this is a new motherboard that understands my hard > drive geometry and I didn't have this error before attempting to install > NT. Also LILO chokes on this. > > Thankx for you help and patience in this slightly OT post. > > > > Shri > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
