Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3139 mails)

["Amit Joshi" <mckagan@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/30/06, Doug McGarrett <dmcgarrett@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thanx, I'll go find the MS knowledge base.  XP recognizes the hda drive,
> as
> a C drive, and Linux is also on some other partitions on this drive.  But
> there
> are two more physical drives in the box, which BIOS can see, but XP can't.
> I'll try Linux on them, and see what I can do that way.  It's
> goofy.  (I've
> actually
> been running another version of Linux on another box, since with the
> Ethernet connection on this MOBO, Linux can't read the mail.  Nothing's
> ever easy.)


Windows XP is compatible only with the FAT and NTFS File systems(By Default)
.
It is somewhat compatible with EXT2 and EXT3 File systems as well..but only
after installation of proper software.

So, from what you say...if Windows XP doesn't recognize the hard
drives..there's a possibility that these drives maybe partitioned and
formatted with a File System that is not compatible with Windows.

Again..if you wanna check out if Windows can see your Hard Drive, but
doesn't recognize any partitions, then you can Right Click on 'My Computer',
go to 'Manage' and then click on 'Disk Management'.

If the Disk Manager from Windows is able to see your HDD, then I guess,
there is no problem at all, other than the one mentioned above.


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