Linux, Vista dual boot

[Jim Cornette]

Tim wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-03-30 at 21:07 -0800, Fred Erickson wrote:
>> I have a notebook that dual boots Fedora 8 and Vista. Both the
>> partitions that Fedora and Vista use are primary. The Vista Windows
>> Explorer and My Computer can not see the Linux partition. 
> 
> My fairly new laptop came with Vista, and I added Fedora to it, and
> Ubuntu.  My Vista doesn't notice the Linux partitions in the Windows
> Explorer file browser, either.
> 
> I wonder if the original poster's problem might be down to the partition
> types being set as a Windows type, but reformatted into a Linux type.  I
> would expect Windows to see that as a partition to be further worked on.
> 
> My partition types are set to the same type as they're actually
> formatted as.
> 

I have seen the partitions that were on LVMs show in Windows. The 
standard type linux partitions do not show on systems that I have noticed.

Jim
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