The Fool wrote: > >> Fat32 > > There's your problem _Right There_. > > Unless you are using some version of win9x that needs to be able to see > this partition, you need to be using NTFS. It's better in every > way. And you can compress NTFS drives. > > See if you can't dig up an old version of scandisk.exe or norton > utilities DOS version. > But NTFS is not visible to Linux.
> Dump XP and install 2000. > I don't want to buy a 2000. >> But the data is safe. I just don't want to have the trouble to >> reinstall a lot of things, mainly games like Sims 2, that take >> an enormous time with boring CD-switch. > > Boo hoo. You can't take the time to reinstall all tour games. Waaaah. > No. English is not my mother tongue, but it seems that _want_ is not _can_ :-P >> The XP OS is in a different physical HD. > > Dump it, reformat as a compressed NTFS drive and install 2000. > This is the worst case scenario! I would have to acquire another buggy OS and then have Windows/Linux totally separated. >> Hmmm... Could it be that somehow this is not a Windows bug or >> hardware bug but a _Linux bug_? Somehow Linux turned the partition >> from Windows-visible to Windows-invisible? > > Yes. > If Linux did it, then Linux can fix it :-P But I still think it was not a software bug, but a hardware bug. Alberto Monteiro _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
