i have installed two OS(xp & linux)in a single hard disk. i made 6 hard disk partitions, out of which?

Question

i have installed two OS(xp & linux)in a single hard disk. i made 6 hard disk partitions, out of which?

Answer 1

Read the documentation on your linux OS - I don't know it. You mount the ntfs partitions - easily done under Ubuntu. Under Ubuntu I click on Places, and select the windoze partitions I want to mount (on one machine) or on another machine I select removable media - and mount the drives I want to access. There are other ways to do this as well. I have no idea how you need to do it with your distro.



There is a driver for windoze that allows it to access ext2 and ext3 partitions. google it "xp ext2".

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Given the advice above, I did the search for you:

http://www.fs-driver.org/

Answer 2

hmm,, this may not answer the question, but what i do which i think is easier, is I use xp as the main os, than have a program which installs partions of linux os's like ubuntu and kubuntu+kde 4.1, onto the hard drive. So when you boot the laptop or pc, you have the option of booting eith xp, or linux 1,2,3,4.... etc... , and ultimately, if it crashes or you screw up inside linux, you can go in , load xp, open up the installer for the partitioned os's, and uninstall them and reinstall them when ever you want, dont know if this helped,, but one such program that is ok is wubi, but there are other multiboot linu os apps out there.

Answer 3

Windows can't read partitions with ext3. And some linux distros don't allow write access to NTFS partitions.



Solution: Create one FAT32 partition. Both Linux and Windows can read/write to fat32. Use this partition to transfer files between OS's.



Good luck!!