New OS set up

TheRecluse · 01-10-2005, 06:56 PM

I just realized I could get more use out of my 2 hard drives (one 10gig, one 40 gig) if I moved my OSs (WinXP, and a distro of Linux) to the 10 gig drive and format the 40 gig to FAT32 to share files...

I just wanted to make sure I wouldn't run into any bumps before I went and formatted my drives. Does everything sound like it will work?

TheMajor · 01-10-2005, 07:10 PM

How do you want to move them? Or do you mean you want to formati everything and install XP+Linux on the 10gig?

TheRecluse · 01-10-2005, 07:19 PM

Yeah, I want to install XP and Linux on the 10 gig.

TheMajor · 01-10-2005, 07:32 PM

That should work fine. Make sure to install Xp first.

TheRecluse · 01-10-2005, 08:00 PM

Will there be any problems with directories? like if i have a folder on the 40 gig called music will windows see it as i.e. D:/music and Linux will see it as /hdc/music or whatever the path under linux would be?

TheMajor · 01-10-2005, 08:04 PM

No, I don't think there will be any problems. Make sure to use FAT32 for your music disc to be able to write files in linux.

TheRecluse · 01-10-2005, 10:34 PM

And should I keep the OS drive all in FAT32 as well? or can i have XP in NTFS and Linux in ext3 or whatever... they can both read/write to FAT32?

TheMajor · 01-11-2005, 12:34 AM

Both will be able to read+write to any FAT32 partition. Linux is not able to write to an NTFS partition, though.

TheRecluse · 01-11-2005, 09:28 PM

I can't seem to format the 40 gig drive to FAT32. The format runs and then when it finishes it says it can't format a system partition, even though the drive is completely empty...

I haven't installed linux on the other partition of my 10 gig drive yet... Will the Linux disc be able to convert my 40 gig drive to FAT32?

TheMajor · 01-11-2005, 10:13 PM

Using XP you can only format/create a FAT32 partition up to 32GB. Use FDISK from the 98bootfloppy www.bootdisk.com

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