Lets Start with this; Very carefully in a terminal (like dos more) -- read what you type and be sure that's what you want to do -- <fdisk /dev/hda> You will get something like: The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 7753. There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024, and could in certain setups cause problems with: 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO) 2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK) Command (m for help): type <p> enter -- Command (m for help): p You will get something like: Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/hda: 60.0 GB, 60022480896 bytes 240 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7753 cylinders Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 = 7741440 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 7 52888+ 83 Linux /dev/hda2 8 14 52920 83 Linux /dev/hda3 15 829 6161400 83 Linux /dev/hda4 830 7753 52345440 5 Extended /dev/hda5 830 7720 52095928+ 83 Linux /dev/hda6 7721 7753 249448+ 82 Linux swap type q enter These are your partitions -- the MS partitions will be Vfat NTFS etc. Your E partition SHOULD be your last MS partition. -- jludwig <wralphie@xxxxxxxxxxx>
