opps thats a typo.. the 3rd partition is yes 1.1TB and not 10GB. sorry. Paras. On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 3:43 PM, John R Pierce <pierce@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos