Michael wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I just upgraded form RH 6.0 to Mandrake 7.1 on my M$Win95
> box and everything went fine. I got my sound card, modem
> and network card configured without a problem. However, I
> just noticed when I went install a program on 95 so I could
> use it via WINE, that my "D" drive is not visable. It is
> visable on my linux desktop and I can read everything
> that's on it. Did I hose some kind of regedit file or
> something, and is this normal?
>
> TIA,
>
> Michael
Michael....it's possible that the 'partition type identifier'
for your D: drive partition got changed to 'hidden'. What
this does is make windows unable to see the partition. If
this is the problem you can use linux's fdisk program to
identify and repair it.
As root, type:
fdisk -l
This will list the partitions on all the hard drives listed
in your /proc/partitions directory. If there's a hidden
partition it'll show that it is on the far right of the
listing, as it does on the sample below on sdc2 (part of that
line has wrapped around because of my width setting):
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 * 1 555 4458006 b Win95 FAT32
/dev/sdc2 556 1110 4458037+ 1c Hidden
Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
Using fdisk's 't' command the system id (the 'partition type
identifier') can be changed from '1c' to 'b' in the above
example thus making the partition visible to windows.
Nothing will actually be changed till you 'w'rite the
partition table and exit fdisk. You can exit fdisk without
writing the table with the 'q' command.
--
Alan
