Preserved Topic: Linux Drive format

Ok, I have 2 hard drives, One I use on my current computer with Windows XP, the other Did have linux on it on a seperate computer, but im puttin both hd's into same computer. I booted into windows XP and I can't see the Linux drive. I believe its becasue windows doesn't recognize the Format type linux uses. (ie. windows uses NTFS). My floppy drive doesn't work, so when I boot up I can't put a boot disk in. I can see the hard drive in DEvice manager, just not visible im My Computer. Any suggestions?? A plugin that perhaps allows windows to See Linux file system??

Do you have a burner? Bevcuase you can burn all your boot file you would put onto your boot disk onto a CD. To get it working just enter boot setup when you restart your computer and set CD-ROM to primary boot device, then when the prompt comes up (with the CD in your drive of course) hit any key an it will boot from the CD.

you'll need to start XP's disk manager utility... I'm not sure what it's called in english, actually. Somewhere under the Microsoft Managment Console, probably.
There you should be able to see the linux partition(s) and delete them, if you want to.

And forget about a driver to read ext(2 or 3), the usual linux file systems from windows. Those are heretric thoughts, and I don't think there is one. Yet.

so long,

Tyberius Prime

Explore2fs allows you to read Linux partitions from a Windows computer. A nice tool to have if you're using both systems at the same computer...

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Thanks for all the replies.
I managed to fix the problem. I nabbed a floppy drive from another computer and used MaxBlast Plus (a GUI format utility). It recognized the partition. Also for future problems, the Win XP CD format utility doesn't recognize Linux file system, or at least not mine. I was using Redhat Linux. Thanks for ut help

Michael

I don't think any standard windows tool recognize a disk format different than the standard windows formats (FAT, FAT32 and NTFS). If the partition is formated with another file format it just asks if you want to format the partition claiming that the partition hasn't been formated yet.

I think Partition Magic is able to recognise other file formats...

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