On 26 Jul 99, at 18:16, Jose E. Dominguez wrote:
> Posted on behalf of Max Timchenko.
>
> Using a 8.6G hard drive, at first partitioned this way:
> 2G C: drive, FAT32 - boot and win98
> Extended partition
> 500M logic drive D:, FAT16
> 3G logic drive E:, FAT32
> 2G F: drive, FAT32
> and some free space, the following table [from system commander]
> should get it clearer:
>
> ------------------------> start screenshot
> Prim B 1 1 0 4192902 (2047 MB) << C:
> Extd 5 1 0 261 7132860 (3482 MB) << DOS extended
> Logc 6 1 1 261 1028097 (502 MB) << D:
> Logc B 1 1 325 6104637 (2980 MB) << E:
> Prim C 1 0 835 3036285 (1482 MB) << F:
> ------------------------> end screenshot
>
> I wanted to create one more, win95 bootable partition.
This probably cannot be done. You have three partitions already (2
primaries, C: and F:, and the extended partition which contains D: and E:).
You want to create another partition, which is four....
> After running OS Wizard from System Commander Deluxe, the stuff got
> weird.
And many boot managers, probably including System Commander, also need a
partition, making FIVE.
Except that a standard hard drive partition table holds only four entries.
> I still can access anything, but all partition-related
> software (PartitionMagic, OS Wizard [the same one] and more) crash on
> starting, and current partition table is "different and strange":
I'm guessing that System Commander has tried to implement a way around
this difficulty -- but it may only work if SYstem Commander gets to handle
the boot process.
> Another glitch: If you examine closely the later screenshot, you'll see
> that all partitions start @ Sector 1, Head 1, Cylinder x. I thought they
> were supposed to start @ Sector 1, Head 0. Is there a problem here?
I think System Commander may be hiding in the first one of these.
David G
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