On 09/23/11 1:32 PM, Paras pradhan wrote: > You mean the newer windows will create the partition schema as we are > seeing it now? And you think its the automatic partitioning by windows > if somebody has the access to this? i just noticed that 3rd partition is 1.1TB. you had said... > Suddenly my disk device's geometry has been changed to something that > doesnot make any sense. Its a 1.8TB in size and had only one single > partition. Now I can see 3 partitions sde1, sde2 and sde2 of sizes > 130M, 140GB and 10GB. even odder. anyways, the reason I suggested a 'newer version' of windows, is I believe starting with Windows Vista and Server 2008, the windows installer creates a small hidden partition for the boot stuff. The fact that the 2nd partition is tagged as NTFS is why we suggested Windows at all. -- john r pierce N 37, W 122 santa cruz ca mid-left coast