Crap WinXP problem

Ooh baby, Mr XP does not like multiple paritions on one drive too much, especially when you resize one by a gig and they are all different filesystems.

Well I found out after a bit of fretting and sweating that I hadn't lost my ext2 native, or fat32 storage, so nothing has gone. I just had to rechain the MBR and re lilo so my kernels booted, along with .. sigh XP.


anyway, the problem is that in 'my computer' ¬_¬ I cannot see my fat32 d: (8gb), after the install of XP, this didn't worry me too much initially, it used to do it on win2k sometimes, I'd just go into computer management in administrative tools, and remount the partition as the next available drive letter. fine.. all back to normal.

I went to do this in XP, and the only option I had was to delete the 8gb fat32 storage partition, now I wasn't doing that, the only option I have at present is looking around for a crappy diagnostic tool that might mount it, or backing up/hosing the partition, and re-creating a fat32 storage partition under XP.

Can't see what difference it makes to be honest, I know XP supports win2k fat32 partitions, I just can't mount the fucking thing under XP.

I have a pic if you are puzzled now.

thanks in advance.

sigh, backing up 8gb of data,

linux manages to mount/read/write all my partitions no matter the FS, WinXP doesn't.

hmm

I tried to tell you not too, but nooooooo

frown

sigh

I can't mount it still, unless I re-create every time I reboot, and you know thats not very good is it.

Working now, god I'm haxor

didn't lose a byte baby.

what did you have to do to get it to work?

and you cant write to NTFS with linux, or can you?

ive never had this problem seeing as i installed from a clean drive and windows ALWAYS goes in first.

windows cant read linux partitions can it?

sonic1687:

and you cant write to NTFS with linux, or can you?

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There is experimental support for writing to NTFS partitions under current Linux Kernels. Though it typically has to be compiled in. I highly suggest NOT enabling it as it is hella buggy at best and a downright data Assassin at worst.

Avoid.

broken:

sonic1687:

and you cant write to NTFS with linux, or can you?

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There is experimental support for writing to NTFS partitions under current Linux Kernels. Though it typically has to be compiled in. I highly suggest NOT enabling it as it is hella buggy at best and a downright data Assassin at worst.

Avoid.

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Yep, but read support is ok in my books.

In short I had to rechain lilo, rdev kernels, change mtab configs. re-create partitions, backup 10gb of stuff, et cetera.. its sorted now though.. strange XP couldn't read one of its own FS's (fat32) whereas linux could.