Hi
I have two hardrives, a ~28GB and a 60GB. Currently, under linux, the ~28GB is /dev/hda and the 60GB is hdb (which is good, b/c the frist is the master.) no problems here

hda holds the mbr and my xp partition.
hdb has a 2gb swap and 3 partitions for the different distros i use.

now: here's the problem
my xp partition is full (don't ask me how, windows randomly clogs up drive space.) I want to add another "drive" to windows by giving it a patition on the 60gb drive. I'm willing to give up a partition on the 60 and format it for windows.

How should I go about doing this? How should i format the partition and how do i get windows to notice it?

thanks
krelp

oh.
windows doesn't see the other drive at all right now. i don't know why.

another thing i noticed...
the drive is in the device manager and is given the location 1(1)

If hdb is formatted in a linux-specific file system (ext2, ext3, reiser, etc.) then Windows XP should see it as an unformatted device. Since you said that you had a shared partition on hdb for both Windows and Linux, Windows should at least recognize that one.

One of the things you can do is -- after backing up all your data on the entire hdb disk -- WHILE IN LINUX, select the partition you want to give to Windows and format it as a FAT32 partition. this will allow Windows to recognize that partition and use it. Once Windows recognizes that FAT32 partition, you can, if you want, leave it as FAT32 or use Windows to convert it to NTFS.