Rearranged partitions, but windows doesn't know it yet

[VanWEric]

My laptop shipped dualbooting WinXP and Redhat - 40gig for Windows, 15 for linux, 5 as fat32 to share between them. I wanted to do a few things:
1) Get Redhat the superlative off my computer
2) Get Gentoo on it
3) Make that shared space bigger

I used ntfsresize to shrink the windows partition by 5 gigs, and then deleted all of the other partitions. Then I put my own /boot/, / , and fat32 partitions down, ignoring the old setup. Installed gentoo - works like a charm. However, windows sees the fat32 as 5 gigs still, when fdisk knows that it is 10 gigs. worse yet - it kept the old data!

Any way I can make windows listen to fdisk?
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[biscuit]

did you use linux fdisk?

maybe u can try using windows fdisk when u r creating a partition to be used under windows. Or try using win xp disk manager to create the partition.

it's not odd that windows can't recognise anything created by linux tools.

[VanWEric]

Don't know why I hadn't thought of this sooner:
1) Pull cd-rom out without warning windows.
2) Laugh at the BSOD
3) Reboot
4) O f---, it done borked!
5) Gentoo livecd
6) fdisk - the crash borked the tables, so I had to re-establish them
7) reboot to windows, let it fix the primary partition
reboot to windows, let it find the "new disk" (the fat32 partition)
9) reboot to windows, format the drive
10) reformat the drive (first time borked)

There we are! A quick an easy 10 step way to make windows aware of fdisks power. Hardest part is to cause a serious disk crash - you may need to joggle IDE cables while it is running if you don't have a laptop.
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