Guest ShadowTek Posted October 13, 2008 Posted October 13, 2008 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?
Guest Dirk T. Verbeek Posted October 13, 2008 Posted October 13, 2008 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 Posted October 13, 2008 Posted October 13, 2008 Re: Windows Can't See Ubuntu Hard Drive 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 Posted October 14, 2008 Posted October 14, 2008 Re: Windows Can't See Ubuntu Hard Drive "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 Posted October 14, 2008 Posted October 14, 2008 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 Posted October 14, 2008 Posted October 14, 2008 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 Posted October 14, 2008 Posted October 14, 2008 Re: Windows Can't See Ubuntu Hard Drive 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. http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/4425/capture13102008225935uw4.jpg http://img529.imageshack.us/img529/6798/capture13102008225910yz0.jpg
Guest ShadowTek Posted October 14, 2008 Posted October 14, 2008 Re: Windows Can't See Ubuntu Hard Drive 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 Posted October 14, 2008 Posted October 14, 2008 Re: Windows Can't See Ubuntu Hard Drive 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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