Re: Strange drive issue when using Win98 and Debian
On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 11:01:22AM +0200, Alex Suzuki wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I'm using Debian woody almost exclusively on my box, but I still
> have a Win98 Partition, primarly to read those wacky .doc files
> with crazy formatting that StarOffice just can't read right.
> The thing is, Windows used to access 3 drives when it was
> installed.
> C: which is /dev/hda1, which is a FAT32 drive, this actually
> the only FAT32 partition left at the moment
> D: which was /dev/hdb1, which is now exclusively used by Linux,
> formatted as ext2 and
> E: which was /dev/hda7, which is now also used exclusively
> under Linux, mounted as /home
>
> The problem is, when I boot Win98, it still shows me those
> two drives, despite that it obviously shouldn't be able to
> make sense of them, since they are ext2. The drives appear
> with strange labels like "*"&%#@#", just random gibberish.
> When I choose it in Explorer, it just displays some strange
> and directories which ARE not there.
> My question: How do I tell Windows that it is no longer
> allowed to access or even see those drives?
Are D: and E: mapped drives?
kent
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