I encoutered a strage problem during my partioning a new
harddisk. I would be very appreciated if any pro can help
me on this.
I just got my new mainboard and harddisk. Configuration
as the following:
AMD Athlon XP 1600+
Abit KR7A-Raid KT266A
Kingston DDR 256MB X 2
Maxtor D740X-6L ATA133 40GB 7200RPM X 2
Before I install the new harddisk, i used my fiend's system
to partition my harddisk. It is a PIII 866 on a giga-bye
815EP motherboard. I used 2nd IDE and hooked the each hd
to the system as master (without even checking the jumper on hd).
The sys automatically recogonize the hd as 40,000MB and it was
no problem during partitioning with fdisk.exe came with M$ Win98SE.
Then i deleted the partions and used Linux fdisk (RedHat 7.2)
creating the following partitions:
Start Cylinder End Cylinder Size (MB) Type
--------------------------------------------------------------
1 3 24 Unallocated
4 186 1400 Win98 FAT32
187 612 3500 Linux Native
613 1098 4000 Win98 FAT32
1099 2098 8000 Win98 FAT32
2099 3098 8000 Win98 FAT32
3099 4098 8000 Win98 FAT32
4099 4840 6000 NTFS
4841 4866 256 Linux Swap
Then i went home with two partitioned hds.
When i was trying to hook the new hds to the new system, probs
occurred. I used primary and second IDE (not ata133 raid controler)
first. I found that in bios hooking hd as master or slave has big
differenec. For master, it is 40GB. However, as slave it is only
33GB, which is a huge difference. Thus i hook both hd as master
with ATA133 cable.
There was no prob in installing Win98SE with the bare sys (mobo +
ram + video + hd ).
When I was installing RedHat 7.2, the prog terminated after copying
all designated packages into Linux Native with a message showing that
'partition info might be wrong'. Same experience with two attemps
for installation, so i used Linux fdisk deleting all partitions and
quit RedHat installation.
Then i was trying to creat partitions with dos fdisk, it only recognize
hd as 8,000MB although in BIOS it is 40,000MB. For Partition Magic
7.0 Pro rescue disk, it showed that partition info was wrong and suggest
repairation. After repair, PQMagic rescue disk always gave 'No of cylinders
too big to fit in BIOS' and crushed.
At last i tried to hook my hd to my old sys:
PII 400
KingMax PC133 128 + Micron 256
FIC Ka6130 (Via Apollo Pro 133) microATX
What ever the way i set the jumper on hd, in only one case it could be
recognized as a slave. When I used Partition Magic 7.0, i was only
allowed to create 4 partitions on hd, including both Primary and Extend.
I am totally puzzled now. Are the MBR and FAT on hd corrupted now?
How can I fix that?
Thanks a lot in advange for advice!