extern hard drives

[Doug Pollard]

H.S. wrote:
> Doug Pollard wrote:
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>> Here is the output. I see it has an asterix under boot??  That seems wrong.
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>>          Doug
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>> doug at doug-Linux:~$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdc
>> [sudo] password for doug:
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>> Disk /dev/sdc: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
>> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
>> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>> Disk identifier: 0x0009e195
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>>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
>> /dev/sdc1   *           1       19457   156288321    b  W95 FAT32
>> doug at doug-Linux:~$
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> Looks good. The asterix should not matter, it just makes it bootable.
> Can you read and write files to this partition from Ubuntu?
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> Yes I can read and write to the files in ubuntu.   I went back to Xp and found I am now getting an error. I went back to Xp and am now getting an error message since changing the letter so that I can see the empty drive In the my Computer folder.  The only thing I know to do about that is to take xp back to befor  I put the new drive letter in.  I am suspecting that Xp is the problem.
                                                                         
                  Doug
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