Hello all,
I'm currently working for the first time on getting my computer to dual boot with Windows XP and Ubuntu Linux. I already have both OS's installed and running on seperate hard drives, and I'm working on getting a partition set up to share files between both systems. After doing some online research, I was able to use GParted to successfully clear some space on my Windows hard drive, and then use the Windows Disk Manager to create and format a 32 gb FAT32 partition.
I then continued on to assign the new partition a drive letter (G
in Windows, and then access the new partition. At this point, everything was working fine, and I was able to organize all of my files in Windows and then transfer them to the partition I had just created.
After shutting down the computer and restarting in Linux, I was able to mount the partition and access my newly transferred (and sharable) files. I thought that everything was going fine, but after restarting in Windows again to grab my fonts for use in OpenOffice, I found that Windows was no longer recognizing the partition. In Disk Manager, I could still see the partition was there, and Windows recognized it as a FAT32 partition, but where it should usually say Healthy (Active Partition) or some similar, it now says Healthy (Unknown Partition) and will not let me assign a drive letter so I can access it.
The partition is still accessable in Linux, but if I can't make the partition accessable in Windoze, I can't very well share the files between the two systems.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
