On Wed, 2004-03-24 at 11:26, Bryan Phinney wrote: > On Wednesday 24 March 2004 11:11 am, Chuck Mattsen wrote: > > On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 04:08, Anne Wilson wrote: > > > - From the PM point of view, create your fat32 partition for data > > > immediately after the ntfs partition - you could do this from XP > > > instead, I think. For the rest of the drive just ignore it in PM. > > > > Okay, that's where the free space is, and where the FAT32 partition will > > be. My question where that is concerned is that if I create another > > "primary drive" (e.g., "F:"), would that in any way affect my dual-boot > > status if it's just going to be used for data accessible to both > > systems? > > Not sure that I am following this question entirely, but just to mention a > possible issue. You can only have one primary partition per hard drive. All > other partitions under windows need to be created as extended partitions > split into whatever logical drives you want. Logical drives don't need to > follow any particular convention, at least not for XP, they can be lettered > in any way and the order is not dependent. (For instance, you can have a D: > drive that appears physically before the C: drive on a disk. But, if you > create a second primary partition, it will either be hidden or it will take > the place of the first primary partition. If you are creating additional > drives within already defined space, then hopefully, the primary partition > only extends to the first drive on the disk and subsequent space is already > included in the extended partition. > > Personally, if I were going to create an additional FAT32 partition for > sharing, I would create the partition with Linux. Windows should have no > problem seeing and letting you use the partition and even assigning a drive > letter to it. Partition Magic allows you to do some things that you > shouldn't do in the interest of allowing experts to do things like creating > hidden mirror partitions on a drive, etc. > > The added benefit to this is that diskdrake won't allow you to create multiple > primary partitions and short of deleting an existing partition, shouldn't > harm your windows partition in any way. At least, not in my experience. I > have, however, managed to take out a Windows installation more than once > using PM, nothing that couldn't be recovered but it was a hassle.
Okay, thanks ... yeah, that's what I was trying to say, so ineptly. :-) On the Windows side of things, the only option presented to me, it seems, would be to create a primary partition out of that freed space, hence the "Are you sure?" prompts and my hesitance to proceed any further because of that. I was concerned that if I created the partition from within Linux that it wouldn't easily be recognized by Windows, and was also a bit confused by the questions regarding mount points, etc., that Linux was asking. I'll plan on creating it from Linux rather than Windows, then, and will read up on what I need to know coming in from that angle. In all the years I spent on the Windows side of things, from my 286 BBS'ing box on up through my current XP Pro install, I /never/ had to reinstall an OS, or partition a drive, etc., so this is all very new to me. Linux is forcing me to learn more about what I probably should've been "up" on years ago. :-) Thanks again. -- Chuck Mattsen ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... Mahnomen, MN Registered Linux User #346519
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