extern hard drives

[Александр Горлов]

There is a free drive for reading/writing ext3 from XP. This more universal
way

http://ext2fsd.sourceforge.net/projects/projects.htm

I used this at office on my Windows XP worksation

2009/1/16 NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net>

> On 01/15/2009 06:50 PM, Doug Pollard wrote:
> > H.S. wrote:
> >> Doug Pollard wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>> Here is the output. I see it has an asterix under boot??  That
> >>> seems wrong.
> >>>
> >>> Doug
> >>>
> >>> doug at doug-Linux:~$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdc [sudo] password for
> >>> doug:
> >>>
> >>> 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
> >>>
> >>> Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> >>> /dev/sdc1   *           1       19457   156288321    b  W95
> >>> FAT32 doug at doug-Linux:~$
> >>>
> >>
> >> Looks good. The asterix should not matter, it just makes it
> >> bootable. Can you read and write files to this partition from
> >> Ubuntu?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> 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
> >>
>
> If you wish to store files larger than 4GB (for example the Ubuntu DVD
> which is 4.4GB) on that drive you'll need to convert it ntfs. Ref:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Allocation_Table
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;314463
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310525/EN-US/
>
> I suspect that if you convert the drive to ntfs you'll probably be able
> to see it in XP.
>
>
>
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Thanks

Alex
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