felix well, thanks to you i revisited my partitioning setup and of course it transpires that the partition numbers had been altered somewhere along the way due to me doing two things at once while altering the id, so xp was booting of the other drive but not mounting the other ntfs volume, i'm used to this with linux, in fact i hardly think about it if i repartition but it's a first with win since i never used junction points before with ntfs! aside: the volume name for a win ntfs volume is 46 characters long, now that's an easy to use command line! so having messed in safe mode command line i'm up and running with it, thankyou for making me look twice! :)
bascule On Tuesday 18 Feb 2003 7:13 pm, Felix Miata wrote: > bascule wrote: > > thanks felix but my winxp will not see the ntfs partition that is within > > the extended partition unless the typ is other than 05, specifically it > > will not mount it onto it's filesystem and since that partition is the > > 'documents and settings' stuff i can hardly do without it :) > > if you are sure that winxp pro should be able to do this from within a 05 > > id extended partition then i shall have to double check the integrity but > > there are no signs of errors, this linux install is booted from within > > the same extended partition > > I don't have WXP to try, but W2K has no such problem, and I've never > heard of anyone else with XP unable to access logicals within a standard > 05 extended. -- The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head. (Hogfather)
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