[newbie] Windows hates Linux

[Ciro Dur�n]

Well, after installing a thounsand times Mandrake 7.0 (and Corel AND Debian), finally I make it work...   and now I have two issues:   1) I couldn�t install completely KDE.   When it is installing there�s a moment when it asks me to insert the other CD but it doesn�t open the CD drive and the button doesn�t work.   I have to open manually and when I hit Ok it hangs...   I have to cancel the installation in order to finish it...    Any suggestions?   One is trying to finish it by Drakconf, but I don�t know, i must buy a bigger HD...   2) I had to install GNOME without almost anything (just The Gimp and the configuration packs), and it works right... even I enter the windows partition and it can read anything...   But if I boot from Windows, if I try to open Explorer or ANY program tries to see the HD, or in DOS I enter the partition linux uses, it hangs, it simply stops working, not even the ctrl-alt-del responds...    What it causing this? is there any way to "hide" the partition from Windows?   Thnx   El Ciro