On Thursday 03 Apr 2003 10:58 am, John Richard Smith wrote: > Derek Jennings wrote: > >On Thursday 03 Apr 2003 4:42 am, M X wrote:
> > > >Windows will stop looking for usable partitions as soon as it sees the > > first non Windows partition. So if you want your "4)Partition for data > > accesible from Windows and Linux(FAT32)" partition to be visible from > > Windows it must be the second partition on the drive. > > > > > >HTH > > > >derek > > Windows will stop looking for usable partitions as soon as it sees the > first non Windows partition > > I've seen this suggested before, I want to just corrct that, Windows will > perfectly well see any partition after the linux partitions, provided they > are either fat32 or ntfs. The only partition windows does not see is any of > the linux flavour file system partitions. > I don't think data partitions are too much of a problem, but if you have used another partition to write, say, 'Program Files' then you probably would find it problematic. Anything that windows uses directly needs to be kept before the linux partitions, but fat32 data partitions are not as picky. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302
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