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From: edhall@randvax.UUCP (Ed Hall)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: ibmpc: fdisk & partition
Message-ID: <388@ives.randvax.UUCP>
Date: 1 Dec 88 23:14:10 GMT
References: <5117@whuts.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: edhall@ives.UUCP (Ed Hall)
Organization: Rand Corp., Santa Monica
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In article <5117@whuts.ATT.COM> mjs@whuts.ATT.COM (SCHEUTZOW) writes:
>> I'm having a problem with my harddisk partitions: both ms-dos and minix
>> recognize the same partitions.
>
>The solution is to use the minix "fdisk" program, not the ms-dos "fdisk" 
>program to set the partitions.  The source code for fdisk is on the 
>commands disk in the ibmpc version 1.2 of minix.  I'd like to thank David
>Lawyer and Robert Regn for sending me email to point this out.
>
>Mike S.
>att!whuts!mjs

Be CAREFUL!  I managed to render my DOS partition unbootable by using
Minix fdisk.  I was never able to figure out quite why, either.

Fortunately I had backed up both my DOS and Minix partitions before
I ran fdisk, since nothing short of a high-level format rendered my
DOS partition bootable again.  Of course, I'm hardly a DOSaphile, so
I might have missed something.  (Alas, I still have to run DOS for
some things.)

I wound up using a DOS-based disk manager program (not FDISK) to
repartition.  I would have saved several hours if I had done that
first...

Back up *everything*!!!

		-Ed Hall
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