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Type 6 Hard drive
Name: steve Date: January 2, 2003 at 14:21:50 Pacific OS: Linux Mandrake 9.0 CPU/Ram: 500/256
Comment:
Under hardrake it says that one of my hard drives is unsupported by Linux (type 6) I don't see how this can be, being that it's a 6.4 gigabyte Western Digital EIDE drive. That is one of the most common kind of Hard drives out there, and the model is a caviar, and a friend of mine runs A 30GB caviar under his mandrake 9.0 fine, what's the deal Yo?
Name: Trip Date: January 2, 2003 at 15:20:39 Pacific
Reply:
Type 6 is also known as FAT16. Perhaps you have a partition on your 6.4GB drive formatted as fat16. If that is the case you probably have to convert it to fat32 (there should be a windows prog 'convert' to do this or you can try partition magic). I suggest simply moving all your data on the 6.4GB to your 30GB then partition and then format in fat32, why play games with your data using convert or PM right?
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