On Sat, 1 Jul 2000, Stephen Liu wrote:
> Hi Gordon,
>
> Thanks for your advice.
>
> One thought before proceeding, how to start/boot the PC after deleting
> win.com and re-naming Win98 to Win.old. I have carried out following tests;
>
> 1) Tried to boot with all available MSWindows boot floppy in my possession,
> from CDRom with MSWindows installer, FIPS diskette, DOS 6.2 installing
> diskette, Disk Manager from Seagate. All failed. MSWindow partition/hard
> disk could not be detected. However BIOS could detect the hard disk
>
> 2) Removed the hard disk in question to another PC which was in perfect
> working condition and tried to boot with the abovementioned disks and from
> CDRom. All failed. MSWindow partition/hard disk could not be detected.
> However BIOS could detect the hard disk
>
> The strange thing is MSWindow partition and Linux partition still there.
> Linux can be started working correctly, MSWindows partition can be mounted,
> files in MSWindows partition can be deleted, copied, moved, etc. The only
> problem is MSWindows can't start (after starting LILO --> "DOS" (in
> lilo.conf label=DOS) the screen with " - " flashing and the PC hangs).
>
> During starting Linux (R.H. 6.2) I saw a warning indicating "hda - read_intr
> : error ..... etc". Please refers to the attached dmesg file.
>
> I don't mind to remove everything if the hard disk can't be rescued. But I
> am not allowed to fdisk.
>
> Could you shed me some light. Thanks in advance.
>
> B.R.
> Stephen
>
>
Stephen,
Run cfdisk on the drive from Linux, and check the partation type
for the Windows partation. If it is the wrong type, Windows will not see
it, but Linux will still mount it as long as the information in
/etc/fstab is valid, and the actual file system on the disk matches what
it expects. System Commanders used this trick to let you have more then
one Windows partation on the same drive. (Windows 3.1,, Windows 95, and
Windows 98 on the same system, all with their own drive C:.)
Mikkel
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