Charles,
I was able to get PM. When I ran it though, i couyld see two files.
There was a FAt which was labled as my C drive in windows. Then there was
the remainding of my hard drive all in one clump. And rather that saying
what type of drive it was, (whether FAT32 or Linux) it called it "type
85." I thought that was sorta strange since that was where the linux and
D drive are but clumped them together. Then, if i were to boot to linux,
sure enough all the drives are still there, the C, D and linux. But what
i tired to do was in windows, the clump called type 85 (which is where the
D and linux are) i tired to set as Active like you suggested and then
rebooted. Unfortunately it didn't have an effect. Do you know if there
is something else that I can do? thanks for your help thus far.
Sean
On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Sean David McCurry-Nieto wrote:
>
> The download time is really long since it's rather large. but i'm working
> on getting it, it'll just take some time.
>
> I do have data on the FAT32 D partition. it wasn't just written over, but
> rather how you were saying it's hidden since i can't access it. i'll try
> to get PM and see if that would do the trick.
>
> sean
>
> On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Charles
> A Edwards wrote:
>
> > Sean
> > You can not download a working copy of PM.
> >
> > I have used PM for almost all of my partitioning so I have no first hand
> > knowledge as to wheather fdisk or any other utility will allow you to set
> > your D partition as active.
> >
> > Since you created your D partition when you installed Mandrake does that
> > mean that you don,t actually have any data on it?
> > If it is just an empty Fat partition you can boot to your 7.1
> > installation CD, go through to the partition utility, delete D, and resize C
> > to take back the space. After it has been written to disk cancel the
> > installation.and reboot your system. You will now have only one Windows
> > partition but it's size will now be that of C & D combined.
> >
> > Charles
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Sean David McCurry-Nieto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2000 2:13 PM
> > Subject: Re: [newbie] partition (drive) access
> >
> >
> > > 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
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
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