cannot resize dual boot partition (RH 7.3)

[Jonathan Hutchins]

Does anybody have any suggestions for Anil?  He re-sized the partition, then
re-installed W98, and Windows 98 still shows the wrong size.

-----Original Message-----
From: Philip, Anil [PCS] [mailto:aphili01 at sprintspectrum.com] 
Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 9:09 AM
To: 'Jonathan Hutchins'
Subject: RE: cannot resize dual boot partition (RH 7.3)

Jonathan,
Last night, I ran Scandisk with the "thorough" option and it reported zero
bad sectors. However I still see the wrong value for C: from Win98.
I tried cfdisk but there is no such command - at least installed.
fdisk prints the partition table thus:
(surprisingly, I could not copy/paste)
------
Device	Boot	Start	End	Blocks	Id	System
/dev/hda1		800	805	48195		83 	linux
	hda2   *	1	799	6417936	b	win95 Fat 32+
hda3			806	1132	2626627	83	linux
hda4			1133 	1229	779152+	f	win 95 (extd) LBA
hda5			1133	1229	779121	82	linux swap

thanks,
Anil.

-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan Hutchins [mailto:hutchins at opus1.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 12:12 PM
To: Philip, Anil [PCS]
Subject: Re: cannot resize dual boot partition (RH 7.3)

I think the W98 installer will only format if it finds an unformatted
partition, and if it's seeing data it won't format.

Running scandisk is probably a good idea, at least worth trying.

Something lurks in the back of my mind that there are two partition tables,
and it could be that the Linux tools are reading one and Windows the other,
but I can't recall quite clearly enough how it would be corrected.

What do you see when you run cfdisk under Linux?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Philip, Anil [PCS]" <aphili01 at sprintspectrum.com>
To: "'Jonathan Hutchins'" <hutchins at Opus1.COM>
Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 11:17 AM
Subject: RE: cannot resize dual boot partition (RH 7.3)

> Jonathan,
> I have a 10G hard disk with 4G for Win98 and 6G for RedHat.
> I first reinstalled Linux and deleted the old partition using the
> Linux fdisk that comes with disk druid. I made it 4G for RH7.3 and 6G for
> Win.
> I then reinstalled Win 98. The reinstall automatically formats the
partition
> (as far as I remember).
> However, when I look at C: from windows, it shows only 4G as the size of
C:
>
> Here's what someone said in the Ranish PartMan newsgroup.
> Are they correct? (I have no expertise in this)
> "You have to run scandisk (the thorough scandisk). It will take longer but
> it
> corrects or traps (wraps) up bad disk spots if it finds them.
> Jacquie"
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jonathan Hutchins [mailto:hutchins at opus1.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 10:36 AM
> To: Philip, Anil [PCS]
> Subject: Re: cannot resize dual boot partition (RH 7.3)
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Philip, Anil [PCS]" <aphili01 at sprintspectrum.com>
>
> > What I did was to reinstall Linux and deleted the old partition using
the
> > Linux fdisk that comes with disk druid. This way I was trying to
increase
> > the space for Win98. Then I reinstalled Win98.
>
> > I cannot use fips or fdisk now since I have reinstalled both Os'es and
the
> > data.
> > Is there any way to make Win98 'see' the correct value now?
>
> Unfortunately, MS systems are not as flexible with disks.  I think you're
> lucky that the first part of the partition is still readable.
>
> The official Microsoft solution is to back the data up to some other
storage
> and reformat the partition.  What you're seeing is that only the old
portion
> of the partition is formatted.  If you succeed in getting W98 to see the
> correct size, it will probably loose track of the original formatting.
> Utilities like Partition Magic account for this by effectively
reformatting
> without starting from the beginning of the track.
>
> I'm afraid that I don't know of any Linux utility that will format the
> remaining portion of the drive without destroying existing data.  The
> ability must be in fips, but it's meant only to shrink MS partitions, not
> "grow" them.  Your best bet is probably to move the data off and reformat.