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I have 2 SATA 250GB hard drives. The first hard drive has Ubuntu 8.04 AMD64

installed on an EXT3 partition, and there is also a 5GB swap partition. The

second hard drive has WindowsXP installed on an NTFS parition, and there is

another FAT32 recovery partition on that drive.

 

Windows doesn't see the drive with Ubuntu on it, in spite of the fact that

I have installed a working EXT driver for Windows that I have regularly

used with my EXT3 external hard drive.

 

How can I get Windows to see the partitions on the Ubuntu drive?

 

Also, Ubuntu can see the NTFS partition just fine, but it doesn't see the

FAT32 partition. Why is that?

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Guest Dirk T. Verbeek

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Re: Windows Can't See Ubuntu Hard Drive

 

ShadowTek schreef:

> I have 2 SATA 250GB hard drives. The first hard drive has Ubuntu 8.04 AMD64

> installed on an EXT3 partition, and there is also a 5GB swap partition. The

> second hard drive has WindowsXP installed on an NTFS parition, and there is

> another FAT32 recovery partition on that drive.

>

> Windows doesn't see the drive with Ubuntu on it, in spite of the fact that

> I have installed a working EXT driver for Windows that I have regularly

> used with my EXT3 external hard drive.

>

> How can I get Windows to see the partitions on the Ubuntu drive?

>

> Also, Ubuntu can see the NTFS partition just fine, but it doesn't see the

> FAT32 partition. Why is that?

 

The windows ext driver will not recognise the drive when there is (even

slight) damage to the ext2/3 file system.

So it might be worth while to do force a file check on this drive.

 

I don't know about the FAT problem.

Guest ToddAndMargo

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ShadowTek wrote:

> I have 2 SATA 250GB hard drives. The first hard drive has Ubuntu 8.04 AMD64

> installed on an EXT3 partition, and there is also a 5GB swap partition. The

> second hard drive has WindowsXP installed on an NTFS parition, and there is

> another FAT32 recovery partition on that drive.

>

> Windows doesn't see the drive with Ubuntu on it, in spite of the fact that

> I have installed a working EXT driver for Windows that I have regularly

> used with my EXT3 external hard drive.

>

> How can I get Windows to see the partitions on the Ubuntu drive?

>

> Also, Ubuntu can see the NTFS partition just fine, but it doesn't see the

> FAT32 partition. Why is that?

 

Try over at comp.os.linux.misc. There are also a great

bunch of fellows.

 

Also think of running Windows out of a virtual window

(VM Ware, Virtual Box) instead of dual boot. That way

you get the power of Linux: speed, stability, the ability

to back everything up, a journaling file system, etc..

Plus, you can run those programs that do not run under

Linux or Wine in the virtual Windows machine. I share

my file using the SAMBA file server in Linux. Takes

me 8 minutes to fully back up my Virtual XP and

the same amount of time to restore it. (Sort of

like ghost. Linux see the virtual machine a single

large file.)

 

Best of both world at the same time.

 

-T

Guest ShadowTek

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"Dirk T. Verbeek" <dverbeek@xs4all.nl> wrote in

news:48f2d8c1$0$195$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl:

> The windows ext driver will not recognise the drive when there is

> (even slight) damage to the ext2/3 file system.

> So it might be worth while to do force a file check on this drive.

>

> I don't know about the FAT problem.

 

Ubuntu has done several routine disc checks at startup and never mentions

any problems. I also did fsck from a boot disc and there were no errors

found.

 

Windows still doesn't see the partitions, in spite of the fact that the

disc is listed as functioning in the Device Manager.

Guest ToddAndMargo

Guest ToddAndMargo

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Re: Windows Can't See Ubuntu Hard Drive

 

ShadowTek wrote:

> "Dirk T. Verbeek" <dverbeek@xs4all.nl> wrote in

> news:48f2d8c1$0$195$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl:

>

>> The windows ext driver will not recognise the drive when there is

>> (even slight) damage to the ext2/3 file system.

>> So it might be worth while to do force a file check on this drive.

>>

>> I don't know about the FAT problem.

>

> Ubuntu has done several routine disc checks at startup and never mentions

> any problems. I also did fsck from a boot disc and there were no errors

> found.

>

> Windows still doesn't see the partitions, in spite of the fact that the

> disc is listed as functioning in the Device Manager.

 

Look in Windows "Disk Management". See if it is sharing a drive

letter with another drive. If so, there is an option to change the

drive letter. This happens a lot with USB stick walking all

over network drive letters. Maybe this is what is happening

to you as well.

 

HTH,

-T

Guest ToddAndMargo

Guest ToddAndMargo

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Re: Windows Can't See Ubuntu Hard Drive

 

ShadowTek wrote:

> "Dirk T. Verbeek" <dverbeek@xs4all.nl> wrote in

> news:48f2d8c1$0$195$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl:

>

>> The windows ext driver will not recognise the drive when there is

>> (even slight) damage to the ext2/3 file system.

>> So it might be worth while to do force a file check on this drive.

>>

>> I don't know about the FAT problem.

>

> Ubuntu has done several routine disc checks at startup and never mentions

> any problems. I also did fsck from a boot disc and there were no errors

> found.

>

> Windows still doesn't see the partitions, in spite of the fact that the

> disc is listed as functioning in the Device Manager.

 

Look in Windows "Disk Management". See if it is sharing a drive

letter with another drive. If so, there is an option to change the

drive letter. This happens a lot with USB stick walking all

over network drive letters. Maybe this is what is happening

to you as well.

 

HTH,

-T

Guest ShadowTek

Guest ShadowTek

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ToddAndMargo <ToddAndMargo@invalid.com> wrote in

news:e4uNquZLJHA.2760@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl:

> Look in Windows "Disk Management". See if it is sharing a drive

> letter with another drive. If so, there is an option to change the

> drive letter. This happens a lot with USB stick walking all

> over network drive letters. Maybe this is what is happening

> to you as well.

 

It wont let me change the drive letters for either partition on the second

drive.

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Guest ShadowTek

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ShadowTek <fake@email.address> wrote in

news:Xns9B36EBCE3C681psistormyamatocscom@85.214.90.236:

> It wont let me change the drive letters for either partition on the

> second drive.

 

Ahh hell, I forgot all about the fact that the IFS driver creates a control

panel applet. That's where you're supposed to assign drive letters for EXT

partitions. lmao

 

 

Does anybody know if it's possible to use the Ubuntu swap partition for

XP's swap file?

 

That would be convenient.

Guest ShadowTek

Guest ShadowTek

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ShadowTek <fake@email.address> wrote in

news:Xns9B37EFAB2EEFpsistormyamatocscom@85.214.90.236:

> Does anybody know if it's possible to use the Ubuntu swap partition

> for XP's swap file?

>

> That would be convenient.

 

Nevermind, I found a way, and I got it working now.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=245393

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