[GRLUG] Windows Switchover... T.T, possible duel boot... ^_^

[David Pembrook]

Jason Kisner wrote:
> Unfortunately, due to some circumstances, I needed to switch over to
> Windows. Fortunately I have access to XP so it's not a total loss... yet.
> The unfortunate side is that I now have 4 gigs of XP and ~ 70 gigs of
> missing data. What I did was create an empty partition and installed XP into
> it. Well, now I have XP but XP won't even acknowledge that I have more than
> 4 gigs of harddrive. So, I was thinking that some of you guys who duel boot
> could help me out with this problem. And, if I haven't screwed things up
> royally yet, I'd like to see if I can get my system to duelboot.
>   
>
run "diskmgmt.msc". You should see the Linux partitions. Windows just 
doesn't know what to do with them. Thats probably why it doesn't see 
more than the 4gig windows partition.

As I see it you'll need a fat32 partition that can be used safely by 
either operating system for data. Linux currently doesn't safely write 
to NTFS partitions. Another simple fix is a USB/Firewire external hard 
drive which I have used cross platform with no issues.

Dave