I have kept an eye on the this mailing list, but their have been no replys. I know that no one is obliged to answer a plea for help...but does anyone have a clue as to what is causing my problem? Thanks. A User trying to Learn. On Saturday 21 July 2001 12:51, DStevenson wrote: > Hi All, > > Basically I need to know which is the best way to partition/format a hard > drive which is going to be shared by Linux/WinMe. > > The hard drive had some read errors (in WinME), so I went into Harddrake > and deleted the partition (i have tape backup) and rebuilt using FAT32 LBA > on primary. This is a single partition using all available space (4.2G). > Made it active and formated the space, saved config to 'fstab' and rebooted > machine. > > Problem: > > I can see the drive and write to the drive in Linux. I boot into WinME > and...cannot see the Linux data. But I can write to the drive and created a > dir and file. I boot back into Linux...I can see the files created by > Linux, but not the WinME files. > > For test purposes I just created a directory named linux_dir with a single > file named linux_file. Did the same in windoze. > > Does anyone have any idea what is going on here. I have a couple of Linux > books but cannot find any pitful that I may fallen into. > > Thanks in advance. > > Dave
