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Redhat 6.1/Win98 unwanted HD mirroring

I've got a P3/600 with a single 20Gb drive.  It's partitioned as a single primary for Win98 of 5Gb (using Win98 fdisk) and a 15Gb Extended partition (using Linux fdisk) containing 2 * 5Gb Win98 partions with the remaining 5Gb in 6 partitions for Redhat 6.1.  I made sure to zero out the first 512 bytes of the 2 Win98 logical drives with dd prior to formatting them under Win98.

Linux runs fine.  Redhat runs fine.  But the 2 * 5Gb Win98 logical drives (D: & E:) appear to be mirroring each other.  None of the diagnostics see anything wrong...

W'sup w/dat?  I'd really like to stop the mirroring and have use of both 5Gb partitions!

I can afford to re-install everything except the main Win98 primary partition if need-be, but would prefer an easier solution.
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Excellent answer -- worked like a charm -- thanks much.  Makes perfect sense in an imperfect Windows98 kinda way!