On Sunday 24 February 2002 18:59, Dan Kolb wrote:

On Sunday 24 Feb 2002 18:43 pm, Matt Williams wrote: [snip]

Have you checked the partition types? It's possible that your ex-FAT partition is still marked as being a DOS/Windows partition in the partition table. To check: go into Linux as root, and type "fdisk /dev/hda". Type 'p' to show the partition types, and note what's written by the 'System' column - the Linux one should be ID 83 (System: Linux). Chances are, if Win2k is detecting it, it's marked as some DOS/Windows ID. To change it, type 't' to change a partition type; then enter the partition number (which you got from printing it via 'p'), enter "83" to mark it as a Linux partition (so Windows won't recognise it as drive D:)

Here's the output of p: Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1467 cylinders Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 1045 8393931 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hda2 1046 1467 3389715 f Win95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/hda5 1046 1062 136521 82 Linux Swap /dev/hda6 1063 1467 3253131 83 Linux I'm guessing that it's something to do with hda2 yes? It won't let me change it unless I delete it (as you probably know). If it is this can I get rids of it without killing the rest of the linux install? Cheers m: -------------------------------------------------------