[wellylug] partition table + win2k/linux/Seagate Disk Manager

[Ilia Pavlenko]

On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, Jonathan Harker wrote:

> On Sunday 23 Feb 2003 12:09 am, Ilia Pavlenko wrote:
> > Greetings.
> >
> > I've encountered a weird problem with a recently installed HDD.
>
> You're probably going to have to start again!



Nuking the drive is ugly solution, and it's not that easy :)

it wasn't new install, it was "upgrade" from 6gb to 20gb.
The machine is actually used in engineering office, so full rebuild is
going to waste full day. And it's not just W2k + Office, there also
specific apps and (groan...) E-mail migration. :)

so "upgrade" was done by booting from linux live-cd, mounting old and new
windoze partitions and copying one onto another... :) then booting from
win2k cd, going to recovery console and doing "fixboot"

>
> You shouldn't need any third party software to divy up your drive.

buggy motherboard bios (gigabyte GA6-something...) . Linux doesn't care
about it, micros~1 systems do, so if bios can't see big hdd -
they won't see it. At first I tried to partition drive from win98se boot
floppy - it insisted on 507MB harddrive (braindead junk).

Windoze has problems seeng partitions created with linux fdisk,
so I had to use "seagate disk manager"

> Nuke your
> drive and start with it completely blank. Use W2K to define your two windows
> partitions at the front. I suggest NTFS

NO ! had enough pain with it :) (probably due to buggy motherboard) - some
crazy filesystem corruptions, usually ending in "NTLOADER is missing".And
what are security advantages of NTFS ?

>for the C drive, which contains only
> the Program Files, Docs and Settings, and WINNT folders, for security
> reasons.
> Stick everything else on a FAT32 D drive (and point My Documents to
> it) so you can read/write your data from Linux too. NTFS is readonly from
> Linux however, so its up to you!
>
> Leave the rest of the drive unpartitioned - your Linux distro should take care
> of its own partitioning at install time.
>
> BTW, you may want to consider having at least a separate partition for /home -
> this keeps your data separate if you ever need to nuke your linux distro,
> swap into another computer, etc.

about 400mb swap (256ram) and about 3 gig linux - plenty for workstation

Why would I want to nuke linux ? :) plus what shall I do if I give too
much room to "/home" and then run out of room on "/" ?


Anyway, the latest thing I'm going to try tomorrow is
"dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=1k count=1", then boot from live-cd,
recreate partition table (within the same cylinders), then reboot from
live-cd with mounting root partition from harddrive and doing "lilo" to
restore MBR. Maybe this will fix...


Thanks for suggestions :)

Ilia

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