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Date:	Tue, 11 Oct 2005 11:54:52 PDT7
From:	sshapiro@ucsd.edu (Sandy Shapiro)
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: large hard drive

In <434C0557.40906@linkline.com>, on 10/11/05
at 11:32 AM, Wayne said:

>Sandy, are you creating the partitions under OS/2 or under WinXP? I had
>some similar problems some time back and I can't recall them in detail,
>but my problem revolved around partition codes. If you're creating the
>partitions under WinXP, an extended partition may be given a partition
>code of "F" rather than "5"; OS/2 requires a "5" whereas WinXP will
>accept either a "F" or a "5". HPFS and NTFS both use partition code "7".

>You can use DFSEE to look at the partition codes and to change them;
>experimenting shouldn't be a problem since you aren't yet using the
>drive.

Hi Wayne,

I don't know how to create a fat32 partition using dfsee, and partition
magic does not recognize my USB drive when I boot from a floppy. So I am
using Partition Magic under WinXP to create the fat32 partition(s).

DFSEE tells me that I have a logical 0b type of partition -- the same as
the fat32 partition on my IDE hard drive. I have no trouble reading from,
or writing to, the fat32 partition on the IDE drive. But on the USB drive,
I get the error message "not formatted correctly."

I tried taking a look with LVM and it says: Partition Table May be
Corrupt. I suppose I could try going back to 32GB partitions, but that
doesn't seem worth it.

Sandy

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