Windows Can't See Ubuntu Hard Drive

[ShadowTek]

I have 2 SATA 250GB hard drives. The first hard drive has Ubuntu 8.04 AMD64
installed on an EXT3 partition, and there is also a 5GB swap partition. The
second hard drive has WindowsXP installed on an NTFS parition, and there is
another FAT32 recovery partition on that drive.

Windows doesn't see the drive with Ubuntu on it, in spite of the fact that
I have installed a working EXT driver for Windows that I have regularly
used with my EXT3 external hard drive.

How can I get Windows to see the partitions on the Ubuntu drive?

Also, Ubuntu can see the NTFS partition just fine, but it doesn't see the
FAT32 partition. Why is that?

 

[Dirk T. Verbeek]

Re: Windows Can't See Ubuntu Hard Drive

ShadowTek schreef:
> I have 2 SATA 250GB hard drives. The first hard drive has Ubuntu 8.04 AMD64
> installed on an EXT3 partition, and there is also a 5GB swap partition. The
> second hard drive has WindowsXP installed on an NTFS parition, and there is
> another FAT32 recovery partition on that drive.
>
> Windows doesn't see the drive with Ubuntu on it, in spite of the fact that
> I have installed a working EXT driver for Windows that I have regularly
> used with my EXT3 external hard drive.
>
> How can I get Windows to see the partitions on the Ubuntu drive?
>
> Also, Ubuntu can see the NTFS partition just fine, but it doesn't see the
> FAT32 partition. Why is that?

The windows ext driver will not recognise the drive when there is (even
slight) damage to the ext2/3 file system.
So it might be worth while to do force a file check on this drive.

I don't know about the FAT problem.

 

[ToddAndMargo]

Re: Windows Can't See Ubuntu Hard Drive

ShadowTek wrote:
> I have 2 SATA 250GB hard drives. The first hard drive has Ubuntu 8.04 AMD64
> installed on an EXT3 partition, and there is also a 5GB swap partition. The
> second hard drive has WindowsXP installed on an NTFS parition, and there is
> another FAT32 recovery partition on that drive.
>
> Windows doesn't see the drive with Ubuntu on it, in spite of the fact that
> I have installed a working EXT driver for Windows that I have regularly
> used with my EXT3 external hard drive.
>
> How can I get Windows to see the partitions on the Ubuntu drive?
>
> Also, Ubuntu can see the NTFS partition just fine, but it doesn't see the
> FAT32 partition. Why is that?

Try over at comp.os.linux.misc. There are also a great
bunch of fellows.

Also think of running Windows out of a virtual window
(VM Ware, Virtual Box) instead of dual boot. That way
you get the power of Linux: speed, stability, the ability
to back everything up, a journaling file system, etc..
Plus, you can run those programs that do not run under
Linux or Wine in the virtual Windows machine. I share
my file using the SAMBA file server in Linux. Takes
me 8 minutes to fully back up my Virtual XP and
the same amount of time to restore it. (Sort of
like ghost. Linux see the virtual machine a single
large file.)

Best of both world at the same time.

-T

 

[ShadowTek]

Re: Windows Can't See Ubuntu Hard Drive

"Dirk T. Verbeek" <dverbeek@xs4all.nl> wrote in
news:48f2d8c1$0$195$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl:

> The windows ext driver will not recognise the drive when there is
> (even slight) damage to the ext2/3 file system.
> So it might be worth while to do force a file check on this drive.
>
> I don't know about the FAT problem.

Ubuntu has done several routine disc checks at startup and never mentions
any problems. I also did fsck from a boot disc and there were no errors
found.

Windows still doesn't see the partitions, in spite of the fact that the
disc is listed as functioning in the Device Manager.

 

[ToddAndMargo]

Re: Windows Can't See Ubuntu Hard Drive

ShadowTek wrote:
> "Dirk T. Verbeek" <dverbeek@xs4all.nl> wrote in
> news:48f2d8c1$0$195$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl:
>
>> The windows ext driver will not recognise the drive when there is
>> (even slight) damage to the ext2/3 file system.
>> So it might be worth while to do force a file check on this drive.
>>
>> I don't know about the FAT problem.
>
> Ubuntu has done several routine disc checks at startup and never mentions
> any problems. I also did fsck from a boot disc and there were no errors
> found.
>
> Windows still doesn't see the partitions, in spite of the fact that the
> disc is listed as functioning in the Device Manager.

Look in Windows "Disk Management". See if it is sharing a drive
letter with another drive. If so, there is an option to change the
drive letter. This happens a lot with USB stick walking all
over network drive letters. Maybe this is what is happening
to you as well.

HTH,
-T

 

[ToddAndMargo]

Re: Windows Can't See Ubuntu Hard Drive

ShadowTek wrote:
> "Dirk T. Verbeek" <dverbeek@xs4all.nl> wrote in
> news:48f2d8c1$0$195$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl:
>
>> The windows ext driver will not recognise the drive when there is
>> (even slight) damage to the ext2/3 file system.
>> So it might be worth while to do force a file check on this drive.
>>
>> I don't know about the FAT problem.
>
> Ubuntu has done several routine disc checks at startup and never mentions
> any problems. I also did fsck from a boot disc and there were no errors
> found.
>
> Windows still doesn't see the partitions, in spite of the fact that the
> disc is listed as functioning in the Device Manager.

Look in Windows "Disk Management". See if it is sharing a drive
letter with another drive. If so, there is an option to change the
drive letter. This happens a lot with USB stick walking all
over network drive letters. Maybe this is what is happening
to you as well.

HTH,
-T

 

[ShadowTek]

Re: Windows Can't See Ubuntu Hard Drive

ToddAndMargo <ToddAndMargo@invalid.com> wrote in
news:e4uNquZLJHA.2760@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl:

> Look in Windows "Disk Management". See if it is sharing a drive
> letter with another drive. If so, there is an option to change the
> drive letter. This happens a lot with USB stick walking all
> over network drive letters. Maybe this is what is happening
> to you as well.

It wont let me change the drive letters for either partition on the second
drive.
http://img515.imageshack.us/img515/4425/capture13102008225935uw4.jpg
http://img529.imageshack.us/img529/6798/capture13102008225910yz0.jpg

 

[ShadowTek]

Re: Windows Can't See Ubuntu Hard Drive

ShadowTek <fake@email.address> wrote in
news:Xns9B36EBCE3C681psistormyamatocscom@85.214.90.236:

> It wont let me change the drive letters for either partition on the
> second drive.

Ahh hell, I forgot all about the fact that the IFS driver creates a control
panel applet. That's where you're supposed to assign drive letters for EXT
partitions. lmao


Does anybody know if it's possible to use the Ubuntu swap partition for
XP's swap file?

That would be convenient.

 

[ShadowTek]

Re: Windows Can't See Ubuntu Hard Drive

ShadowTek <fake@email.address> wrote in
news:Xns9B37EFAB2EEFpsistormyamatocscom@85.214.90.236:

> Does anybody know if it's possible to use the Ubuntu swap partition
> for XP's swap file?
>
> That would be convenient.

Nevermind, I found a way, and I got it working now.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=245393