winxp partitions

[Bill Cunningham]

Ok I see how to change partitions now with disk management. What about
Linux's ext3? Windows doesn't read it. It reads my ntfs and fat32 but not
ext3. How can I change active partitions to a linux partition with xp?

Bill

 

[DatabaseBen]

you should really be using
a separate hd for your other o.s
because you are going to screw up your
system - royally.

better find a linux newsgroup....

 

[Guest]

Mounting ext3 under Windows:

http://www.fs-driver.org/index.html

Unfortunately doesn't support journaling so won't be as bombproof as under
linux.

To change the active partition, use FDISK or Ranish from a DOS bootdisk.

 

[Jon]

Ok I see how to change partitions now with disk management. What about
Linux's ext3? Windows doesn't read it. It reads my ntfs and fat32 but not
ext3. How can I change active partitions to a linux partition with xp?

Bill

Usual ways are either to replace your Windows bootloader, or put a
bootloader onto a floppy, or extract a bootloader from a floppy to a file
and add a link to it in your boot.ini. You don't have to change the active
partition to boot into a linux system.

You could theoretically set an extended partition as active in your mbr and
within that set the relevant volume as the active one, but that's not
something I've ever tried, and don't know whether it would work.

 

[CS]

Mounting ext3 under Windows:

Unfortunately doesn't support journaling so won't be as bombproof as under
linux.

To change the active partition, use FDISK or Ranish from a DOS bootdisk.

Works well. I use it all the time. Note - it doesn't support the
ReiserFS file system which is the default for many Linux distros.