[rhn-users] Windows and Linux Formatted FAT32

[Riley, Liz (ACHE)]

Sorry, Im confused.

You had some partitions, /boot was hda5 but moved to 6 when you made a
windows partition. you then created another which came in as hda13

you formatted hda13 as fat32 but windows wont see it as a drive?, it
appears in disk manager as fat32 unknown.. well perhaps thats coz its
not ntfs? Why didnt you just create it in windows if you wanted a
windows partition?

but then you ask how to go about it, go about what? and you wanted to
know how to format a partition so it doesnt display in windows.. Well,
any linux drive probably wont show, or using things like tweakUI you can
hide drive letters.



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From: rhn-users-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:rhn-users-bounces at redhat.com]
On Behalf Of Mobolaji.Osinuga at alcatel.fr
Sent: 16 June 2006 07:47
To: rhn-users at redhat.com
Subject: [rhn-users] Windows and Linux Formatted FAT32


Hello,

Because of the problem I had when my /boot partition changes from
/dev/hda5 to /dev/hda6 when a new windows fat32 partition is created, I
then created a new partition using Redhat.
This partition became /dev/hda13 and my /boot remained on /dev/hda5. I
formatted this partition in fat32 and Redhat sees it.
However, my windows doesn't see it. From Disk Management, it sees the
file-type as FAT32 but it sees it as healthy and unknown instead of
healthy and system.

Does anyone has a clue on how to go about this? Or is there a way to
format a drive that my computer doesn't display in windows?

Thank you.




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