[Taristin]

This time it's my HDD. I saved everything I needed to my 2nd HDD before I attempted to install linux (failing miserably, hence I'm back in Windows). But now that windows is back on, it doesn't give me access to my HDD.

I can see it in the device manager (win2k), and everything seems to be functioning as it should.

I've disabled it, uninstalled it, physically uninstalled it, mapped my network drive to z:\ and everything I could think of, and yet, I still don't have my trusty F:\ with all of my freespace back ups and Truespace stuff. Help?

[Razor]

If I know this right, to install Linux you need the right format for your HDD. If you have converted your second HDD to Linux format, you may need to set it back to Windows supported form so that you can use it. Of course, this is just a guess, but well...

[Taristin]

No, I didn't touch that disk, because I was intending to have Linux and windows.

[Kamikaze]

have you installed any service packs? I've had them totally screw partition detection on 2k. (i.e. a few drives were missing, one gave "please format" warnings)

Razor: Linux can use a wide variety of file systems. E.g. fat, ext2, ext3, reisferfs, xfs, os/2, system V, freebsd.... and so on

[Taristin]

I did upgrade to SP4, but it was an issue with the basic un service packed windows 2k. Is there nothing I can do here?

[Admiral LSD]

There might be...

Hang on a minute.

[Taristin]

*Prays*

Oh, and BTW; I still wanna put linux on, but gentoo was a bit too advanced for me.

[Admiral LSD]

As you're probably aware, you have a PM. Hope it helps.

[Taristin]

It's an extremely slow DL, so I hope so too. But thanks, still, before I know if anything happens.

[Admiral LSD]

Yeah, sorry about that, it's a dialup connection so it'll take a while...

[Kamikaze]

Raa, when you get around to it, you may want to try out Mandrake, I've heard it's rather easy to install and use. (though Debian and Gentoo have superior package management, Debian may also be the most stable of the bunch)

[Taristin]

No prob... *17 minutes to go*

Not that I have anything better to do in the meantime.
*lurks around forums s'more*

[Taristin]

Originally posted by Kamikaze
Raa, when you get around to it, you may want to try out Mandrake, I've heard it's rather easy to install and use. (though Debian and Gentoo have superior package management, Debian may also be the most stable of the bunch)

I'll have to try them... I think I had mandrake once before, but I kinda erased my disk (which I wanted partitioned) because I couldn't figure the graphic partitioner it displayed.

Debian, I may try, as I do know enough of shell commands to get myself around (and am not afraid to read the instructions). I just don't want to go through losing everything again... :-/