partitioning question

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Jul 5th, 2002, 05:05 PM
markman

partitioning question

For some reason, windows does not recognize my linux hard drive. DON'T TUNE OUT THERE! This is not about linux. So I have the drive disabled and everything works fine. Now, I want to decrease the size of the linux partitions so I can put some windows stuff on the other hard drive. However, if I want to view the stuff on the drive, I would have to enable the linux drive, which messes everything up. Now for my question: With partitioning in windows, can you disable parts of a drive and have other parts enabled?
Jul 5th, 2002, 08:02 PM
snakeeyes1000

this is off subject, but thank god for your avatar. God bless you.:D
Jul 6th, 2002, 02:31 PM
Gandalf_Grey_

windows cannot view ext2 or ext 3 partitions. MS doesn't like to acknoledge that it has competition :p. perhaps i am misunderstanding your question however
Jul 6th, 2002, 03:45 PM
markman

my problem:
If I added a fat32 partition to the linux drive, then would I be able to disable the linux partitions (like you would disable a drive in device manager)

also Gandalf:
im not sure if i like redhat 7.2 (aka i want kde3 and gnome 2). How do I upgrade to that? can I do it without getting the new cd and installing using the upgrade option?
Aug 4th, 2002, 09:07 PM
Appaq

try to make the linux native partition with fdisk, inactive. if wont worh then try to make the FAT32 partition active. and... just for the last ideea try to make the partition with partition magic. if u have made the partitions alredy with PQ Magic then try with Fdisk (my experience says PQ Magic is a big **** of managment and partition the hard drives). Belive me!
Aug 4th, 2002, 10:20 PM
Beacon

Apaq where in romania are you??
Aug 4th, 2002, 11:36 PM
Appaq

why are u asking me that?! :p
Aug 4th, 2002, 11:56 PM
Beacon

Coz you were up pretty early for Romania?
It would only be like 8am there now. :)
Aug 4th, 2002, 11:59 PM
Appaq

Yes... i am at work now! I have been all night! I have another 2 hours and the... i will go home! :p Thanks man! ;)
Aug 5th, 2002, 04:10 PM
bbarrick

First of all what, did you partition with?

I had Win98/Linux on the same hard drive with no problems. You said FAT32, so I'm assuming Win 98. I backed up everything I wanted to disk, formatted and did a clean partition through old dos. No window's was on my machine that way it wouldnt try and hog the hd. I had it dual booting with no problem. Remember to format using the /s option I believe and keep a copy of you're cd driver on disk.