Hard Drive 1: 10 GB. Installed Ubuntu 5.10 on it. Hard Drive 2: Partitioned into two: 2a is 10 GB and has Win XP and Office 2003 on it. 2b is 180 GB and has the rest of windows program files on it.
Problem is that when I load Ubuntu, it does not let me access Hard Drive 2. I can see it but not access it. When i load windows, i cannot see the Linux Harddrive. It shows up when I right click on other drive and look under properties-->hardware. If i change the order of harddrives in BIOS, I dont get the bootloader option at all and windows starts automatically.
Linux Harddrive. Quantum Fireball is the Linux Harddrive. It shows two unnamed partitions.
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posted: Nov. 30, 2005 @ 8:03p
legzakimbo
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posted: Dec. 1, 2005 @ 7:59a
(assuming your second disk is not scsi)
in ubuntu as root:
mkdir /mnt/disk2part1 /mnt/disk2part2 (you can call these whatever you want)
mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/disk2part1 mount /dev/hdb2 /mnt/disk2part2
cd /mnt/disk2part1 ls -l
You should see all your files
I'm assuming the filesystem for the windows partition is NTFS. Ubuntu probably compiled read-only support into the kernel so you won't be able to write to it from linux without installing captive-ntfs. There are some caveats with it so don't bother unless you really want to.
To make the changes permanent, add something like this to your /etc/fstab
Just follow the same format as the existing entries.
The reason you cannot see linux in windows is because windows has no native ext2/ext3/reiserfs/jfs/xfs driver. If you have total commander, there is a plugin for ext2 and reiserfs - not sure about the others.
Threepwood
Ancient Member
posted: Dec. 4, 2005 @ 12:28p
Microsoft does actually provide an Installable File System Kit for developers. http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/devtools/ifskit/default.mspx
Using it, someone has written an ext2 IFS for Windows. http://www.fs-driver.org/index.html This also works with ext3 since ext3 is backwards compatible. You will have full read/write access to your ext2/ext3 drives. Permissions are not maintained, but this probably does not matter if it's only your home computer.
I have yet to have any problems using the ext2 IFS for Windows.
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