Charles, I don't have partition magic. I used the utility during the install to
partition the disk. Might there be another way? I'll look for patition magic
to download but i'm connected really slowly so I'm not sure if i'd be able to
get it. thank you
Sean
>Sean
> Let me see if I have your info correctly.
>You have 1 hd on which you have 2 Windows partitions (C&D) and an extended
>Linux partition.
> When your Linux partitions were created your Win D was changed from
>Active to Hidden because normally you would have only 1 active partition per
>hd. If it is hidden Windows can not see it. Linux dosen't care and can see
>any thing except BeOS.
> I am guessing that you have PM. If so then launch it. Select what should
>be your D partition and from the Operation menu choose Advanced/ Set Active.
>You will get a warning message about your Drive letters changing and
>reccomending that you don't do it, but do it anyway.
> Once you reboot your system Windows will once again see both your C & D
>partitions.
>
> Charles
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sean David McCurry-Nieto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2000 6:51 PM
Subject: [newbie] partition (drive) access
> 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
>
>
>
