[Pc_Support] Windows 2000 and FAT32 -> ext3; Windows goes nuts

[Aaron Morrison]

Try installing the EXT2 driver from fs-driver.org -- It's a windows 
IFS driver that talks ext2.  works well from what I've used of it, 
and it might make windows happy looking at that partition.

--am


On 20 Oct 2005 at 1:38, Jason Boxman wrote:

> Fun.
> 
> I had an FAT32 partition on /dev/hdc2 (This Dell has the CD and HD reversed) 
> and recently converted it to an extended partition and installed ext3 
> on /dev/hdc5 and installed Debian.
> 
> Well, of course, Windows flips out.
> 
> I managed to remove a drive letter assignment from it, but Windows 2000 still 
> wants to fsck what it still believes is a FAT32 filesystem at boot time.  
> I've managed to abort it, but I can't imagine it would be good were I to miss 
> that abortion prompt.
> 
> Can I just make the partition go away so Windows forgets it exists?  I've not 
> had problems in the past when I leave the partition unformatted forever and 
> later install Linux.  Windows just claims it's unformatted.  That's fine.  
> But in this instance it was formatted prior and I didn't nuke it in Windows 
> before changing the partition table out from under Windows.
> 
> Perhaps I can just delete the logical 'drive' under Windows' Disk Management 
> and then add it back manually via `fdisk` or whatever?  The actual on disk 
> layout shouldn't change, I'd think, so it ought to be completely safe?
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> -- 
> 
> Jason Boxman
> http://edseek.com/ - Linux and FOSS stuff
> 
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