re: More Than One Letter Assigned to One Partition!
Wednesday, February 28, 2007 at 1:21 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Steve B
(1909 messages posted)
I can't help you with this one. But next time you might try what I do. I make a
small FAT32 partition for transfering files between Linux and XP.
On Wednesday, February 28, 2007 at 11:19 am, JerTheRipper wrote:
>Before:
>
>Partition 1: NTFS WinXP
>Partition 2: HFS+ OSX
>Partition 3: Ext3 Linux
>Partition 4: Linux Swap
>
>I was messing around yesterday and read somewhere about an IFS extension that recognizes
>Ext2/3 partitions. This is useful to me because I'm trying to get Linux to recognize
>my wireless card and it's a pain copying everything to USB key in Windows then copying
>it back to the other partition after a reboot.
>
>So I installed the extension, and saw that it recognized all 3 partitions, which
>I wasn't expecting because the second was HFS+. I assigned them all drive letters
>(X,Y, and Z, for HFS+, Ext3, and Swap respectively).
>Here's a Screenshot
>of the IFS Drive Setting screen.
>
>I went over to My Computer and saw that all three were there. I opened up the Y:
>drive and everything was working fine. Then I went to open up the X: drive and it
>didn't work (which I was expecting) and it asked me if I wanted to format. I decided
>that I did, since I didn't want the HFS+ partition anymore. I set it to NTFS and
>let it run. I now had 4 partitions: C: (NTFS), X: (NTFS), Y: (Ext3), and Z: (Linux
>Swap).
>
>At some point in time I had to reboot for some reason. I went into my computer and
>saw 5 partitions; The 4 that are above and an F: partition that linked to the same
>place as the X: partition. Essentially I have 2 drive letters assigned to the same
>drive. I went into IFS Settings to disable the X: partition, and it wasn't there
>anymore (similar to the screenshot above), then I went into disc management to see
>if it was there and it isn't. I then deleted all three partitions in disc management
>and combined them into one NTFS partition (which leaves me with 2 actual partitions
>and 3 perceived partitions: C:, F:, and X:; F: and X: are still the same). Now I'm
>stuck.
>
>Here's some more important screenshots:
>
>Disk Management
>My Computer F: Details
>My Computer X: Details
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