partitions

as we mount win partitions on linux, is there a way to access linux partitions 4rm windows using the root pwd?

I hav 2 partitions: drive C(physical drive) & D(logical drive), each having a disk space of 20 GB. I will b installing a new hard disk of 80 GB soon. My aim is to divide & distribute that 80 GB space equally to my exisiting partitions(C & D) so that the new total space of the 2 drives becomes 60...

Hi All, I'm having a 40 GB hard disk and it has 4 partitions. In the 4 partitions 4 operating systems are installed (2 WIN XP, 1 WIN 2000 Prof, 1 WIN 98). Now I'm not able to detect which OS is installed in which drive? How to know it? I want to delete all the OS except WIN 2000 Prof. Please...

Hi Gurus, Queation 1 I'm having a 40 GB hard disk. It has 4 partitions and in all the partitions one OS is loaded (Two WIN XP, 1 WIN 2000 prof, 1 WIN 98). Now I don't want all these Operating Systems. I want to format my hard disk. Please suggest me how to format the full hard disk? And...

Hi, I have a P4 2.8 with an Intel D101GGC Mobo and a Seageate SATA (200GB) HDD. I tried installing Ubuntu, but it says that there is No HDD Detected. I currently have 7 partitions on the HDD and all in NTFS. PLease help....

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i have 4 partitions of my HDD with one of the partitions F: almost full with only 100 kb of space left.That is the recovery backup disk. Now windows keeps pointing that out to me from the lower right corner of the taskbar after a while continously giving a low disk space reminder. Is there no...

Hello Everyone, I was trying to free some memory from the partition E (Operating System was loaded here) and unfortunately I was ended with re-installing the OS... Now my total hard disk (80GB) is:- C:\ with 17.5GB D:\ with 2GB-----OS was loaded here.. E:\ with 17.5GB F:\ with 17.5GB...

I am using my FC4 with one ext3 and one swap partitions. I want to add another 30GB FAT32/NTFS partition currently used with windows. 1. How can I convert/format FAT32/NTFS partitions into ext3? 2. How to identify the newly added partition? Can I find it as seperate partition or file? 3...

Hi friends, I recently installed the Windows Vista beta-2 that I received free from Microsoft. I have a 80GB HDD with 4 partitions. I Installed vista in F drive by formatting it from the Vista setup. The problem is I cannot view the entire F drive itself from Windows XP (I have dual booted...

Ok i have a question, I have 2 HDDs 1 is a 40gb hdd with 3 partitions and 1 is a 80 gb drive with 3 partitions. now i have 2 windows XP pro installed on 2 partitions of the 40 gb HDD. now i wanted to know that if i buy a new hard disk(to replace the 40 gb drive) then is it possible for me to...

I'm a total linux noob, got my free ubuntu 6.06 LTS cd 2 days ago so after playing with the live cd for 2 days now i wanna install it. Heres what i have : 80 gb pata hdd, with win xp installed & all partitions are NTFS What i want : xp + ubuntu dual boot so here goes the questions ...

Hi Guys! I have a 80 GB HDD with three partitions of approx 30,30,15. I want to change the partition size but as I have Windows XP already installed, I donot want to delete the present partitions so as to loose Windows XP. I heard that there are many softwares that can change partition...

I have an Hp pavilion a810i pc with windows xp home pre installed it had a 40 GB harddisk with two partitions C: and D: C is the user partition and D is recovery partition i bought a new 80 GB sata harddisk and attached it to my pc and partitioned it into 4 each contains 20 GB now my...

hey all, my computers hardrive had been divided into two partitions since the day i assembled it,when i asked my dealer why,he said that it was easier to reinstall windows or something like that,but now i can't even find enough space to install F.E.A.R in my master partition,so how can i...

Hi Friends, I'm completely new to linux and installed FC5 in my system's Primary slave 2nd HDD. The other operating system I have is Win XP Pro in the Primary Master 1st HDD. There are some partitions in both my HDD in NTFS and some are in FAT32. The Linux is in a partition formatted as ext3...

I can copy files from windows partition but when i try to write on the partitions it says "Access Denied". Even i can't change the permission properties. Please help.

Hey guys, 1.) I want to format my Seagate Barracuda 160 GB SATA HDD Having 2 OS --> Win XP Pro and Linux (Fedora Core 4) So that i can make partitions according to the following criteria in Win XP: C: containing Program Files (Win XP)-----------------> 10 GB D: containing My Documents (only MS...

Hey guys, 1.) I want to format my Seagate Barracuda 160 GB SATA HDD Having 2 OS --> Win XP Pro and Linux (Fedora Core 4) So that i can make partitions according to the following criteria in Win XP: C: containing Program Files (Win XP)-----------------> 10 GB D: containing My Documents...

as u know, i m gonna try ubuntu for a while now, cos i need to work on shake 4.1 for linux & make it look like OS X with XGL before anything, remember i got 12 GB RAW HD space which i made for linux 1) How many partitions do i need 1 for linux - EXT3, what should be the size? 1 for swap...