On Wed, 05 Jul 2000, you wrote:
> I was wondering if someone could answer a technical question for me.
>
> Recently I installed Mandrake 7.1 on my personal computer. Mandrake will
> automaticaly mount your media for you, whether it's HDs, zips, cds, etc. I am
> using a dual boot system, windows and then of course linux. On the windows
> partition I have two drives, C:\ and D:\ Well when I am running Linux, I can
> see both of the windows partitions and can even access the files across the
> partition (from Linux onto windows). But when I boot into Windows I can't see
> the D:\ drive. I can access the C but can't even see the D. Does anybody have
> any suggestions as to what I can do to resolve this?
>
> Sean
'Bout all I can do is make some vague suggestions from memory.
I had the same situation sometime ago when I installed 7.0. My C:
is hda, the whole drive. I wanted to set aside some fat32 space on
hdb, ie, of the 8 gig drive, 5 for Linux and 3 for fat32. No
problem, Mandrake did the deal and even formated the 3 gig space as
fat32.
BUT, when I booted Windoze I expected to see C: and the new D:
It wasn't there. Long time ago, I was advised to use DOS utilities
on DOS partitions, Linux utils on Linux partitions. So, I booted
to a DOS (not DosMode) prompt** and ran dos' FDISK. Best I can
remember, the solution was as simple as setting the partition (the 3
gigs on hdb) as 'active'. Then windoze could see it, and called it
D:
** easiest way to do this for W9x is edit MSDOS.SYS and change
BootGUI=1, to BootGUI=0 You'll then boot to a dos prompt,
typing WIN starts Windoze. You can also use TweakUI to do this.
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~~ Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
