Why not hit "F8" just after your system finishes counting RAM, maybe even F8 a few times just in case you are faster than the computer, then choose COMMAND PROMPT ONLY, much easier than editing MSDOS.SYS and maybe screwing things up there. IMO Jaguar Tom Brinkman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. > -- > ~~ Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Dogma chased the Stigma, and was hit by the Karma. ____________________________________________________________________ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
