I have set up a dual boot situation with XP and suse. I have a partition that I made fat32 in Linux using parted. I was wondering how I find this partition in windows? I know it is a windows question, but am hoping that some more intelligent linux person has run into this.

Of course with linux I can get to partitions easily.

thanks for the help

well it not possible to mention that u may find it as C or D or E drive
check for the size in both linux and windows

regards

Well, my windows directory has c: (mostly blank, i think it is picking up on /boot or /swap), E: (drives windows installed on).

When I boot to my suse cd it shows that the partitions have /dev/hda6 as the fat32 windows partition, but windows doesn't seem to find it. If nobody has run into this with their dual boot maybe I will try a windows forum. Thanks for any help.

Parted and other tools don't create "real FAT32". Althought I don't know how to create FAT32 in Linux.
I was successful only in formatting floppy in FAT32.

Maybe you should try MS-DOS bootable floppy, i.e. try to format... only a suggestion.

can you post the result of to see the partition id (thats a low L not a 1)

Try this in XP

Through the control panel, click on admistrative tools
then
Computer management
then
Disk management

This will bring up the XP disk management extension.

Right click on the partition you want to explore and choose explore. If it's FAT32 it should allow you to do this.
Cheers

Thank you, I will try those other suggestions.

As far as this one, what I found was that it actually was finding the partition and calling it C:, but it is not recognizing its file system and thus I can't do anything with it. I tried to format it, but it told me format was not successful (a very useful windows error)

This is strange to me. Below is what is spit out by fdisk. This is a little different then when I boot to the Suse Install CD and look at the parititions there because /dev/hda4 isn't really described there and /dev/hda6 shows up as Windows FAT32. Any thoughts from this?

Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 13 104391 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 * 14 3200 25599577+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda3 3201 3330 1044225 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda4 3331 9729 51399967+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5 3331 6867 28410921 83 Linux
/dev/hda6 6868 9728 22980951 8e Linux LVM
linux:/sbin #

No wonder that Windows do not see the partition. Look in my system:
I don't know if the filesystem is OK but the partition ID is not "b" but "8e".
If you haven't stored anything valuable there, then change this with fdisk.
(do fdisk /dev/hda) type m for help.
I think to change it you need to type t, then 6 (you'll find this out)
If the partition is not a Fat32 at all, the next time you boot into windows windows shall see it and give you the opportunity to format it.

*EDIT*
An easy way to create a partition is to boot from your Windows CD choose to install windows, and create a new partition. Format it and reboot without installing windows.
You may also take a look at kornerr's guide. Seems fine to me...

Thanks for the help. I ended up booting to the Windows software and entering the restore command line. In there is a partitioning program, I think part something, it is in the help.

I was then able to delete and recreate the partition and tehn windows could format it. Thanks again.