Partition Visibility to Windows

philipogletree · 07-25-2005, 06:24 PM

Hello,

I have a hard drive that has Win XP on it and I want to add a logical partition (ext3) to install Linux. And then have a VFAT32 logical partition after that and another ext3 partition for the Linux swapfile.

/hda1 -> Win XP NTFS primary partition
/hda2 -> Linux ext3 logical partition
/hda3 -> VFAT32 partition
/hda4 -> Linux ext3 swapfile

The problem I am wondering about is whether or not Win XP will be able to see the VFAT32 parition. When I used OS/2, Windows could not. I was just wondering if Win XP will bypass the partitions format that it does not recognize and go on instead of stopping there.

Thank you
Philip

cs-cam · 07-25-2005, 06:37 PM

Course it'll see the vfat partition

That's why a lot of dual-booters have one, cause both OSes will have full access to it.

philipogletree · 07-25-2005, 06:51 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by cs-cam
Course it'll see the vfat partition That's why a lot of dual-booters have one, cause both OSes will have full access to it.

Thank you

I thought that was the case but I wanted to be sure before I did anything so that I didn't have to go back and redo it.

Thaks agian
Philip