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by **Rashid K. Thahi** » Sat, 27 Feb 1999 04:00:00

My friend and I were trying to install linux on his pc
He had a 7.4 gb hard drive with no partitions so I thought that I might
use the fdisk utility that came with the redhat cd to partition the
drive. I did so and created three partitions for dos, linux swap and
linux. Then I almost successfully installed linux. However, in all this
I was not asked to format my new dos partition so really I dont know hoe
to get to this partition and install windows on it. Booting from a dos
floppy does not see this partition. Does anyone have any idea about how
I can get to the new dos partition so as to be able to install windows.
As I said booting from A drive does not list any other drives so there
is not way to change directory to "c" from there.
My friend is gonna get realy mad at me if I can not get his windows
working soon so please help !!

by **Cedric Wa** » Sat, 27 Feb 1999 04:00:00

Hello,

Quote:>I was not asked to format my new dos partition so really I dont know hoe
>to get to this partition and install windows on it. Booting from a dos
>floppy does not see this partition. Does anyone have any idea about how
>I can get to the new dos partition so as to be able to install windows.

I suppose that partition has the same type as the Linux partitions?
Linux uses partitions with type 83 (Linux native) and 82 (Linux swap),
whereas DOS only sees those with type 4 or 6 (FAT16).

So you can simply use Linux fdisk to change the partition's type to 6;
then you can boot from a DOS floppy, it will be recognized as C:, and
you'll be able to format it and (assuming the partition is a primary,
not an extended/logical one) install DOS and Windows.

Good luck,
Cedric.

by **Michael Wrigh** » Sat, 27 Feb 1999 04:00:00

> Hello,

> >I was not asked to format my new dos partition so really I dont know hoe
> >to get to this partition and install windows on it. Booting from a dos
> >floppy does not see this partition. Does anyone have any idea about how
> >I can get to the new dos partition so as to be able to install windows.

> I suppose that partition has the same type as the Linux partitions?
> Linux uses partitions with type 83 (Linux native) and 82 (Linux swap),
> whereas DOS only sees those with type 4 or 6 (FAT16).

> So you can simply use Linux fdisk to change the partition's type to 6;
> then you can boot from a DOS floppy, it will be recognized as C:, and
> you'll be able to format it and (assuming the partition is a primary,
> not an extended/logical one) install DOS and Windows.

> Good luck,
> Cedric.

Sorry I'm breaking in to this OLD conversation, but I did this and my
bootdisk for DOS still doesn't recognize the C: drive. I set my
partitions correctly (I think) one of them is DOS 16 >=32. When I boot
from a floppy for DOS, it not only won't install my CD Rom Driver, but
it won't even recognize the C: drive. I think the problem is in the boot
disk for DOS. But I'm not sure. I've been trying to edit the problem out
in my autoexec.bat (the problem of the CD ROM anyway) but it hasn't
worked yet.

Any ideas?

-=- Michael -=-

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