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Linux HDD Problem

Discussion in 'Software' started by Darv, 6 Aug 2005.

  1. Darv

    Darv Bling!!

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    Got a bit of a problem with a partition on one of my HDD's.

    My windows installation went belly up so in Fedora I formatted a spare HDD to what I thought was fat32, I then made backups of my normal HDD on it.
    I formatted my normal HDD and installed windows onto it, but the spare drive with my backups doesn't come up.

    In disk management it comes up as FAT32 but says "Healthy (Unknown partition)", but if I look in partition software like Partition Magic it tells me it's Ext2.

    So I tried some software to read Ext2 partitions in Windows but they don't come up with anything.

    Any idea's on how I can read it in windows?
     
  2. macdude425

    macdude425 What's a Dremel?

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    There's a way to do it using Services for UNIX in Windows (it works; I've done it before), but at the moment I cannot remember how (it HAS been a while...). Google should provide some help in this matter.
     
  3. Darv

    Darv Bling!!

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    Cool thanks, am downloading that now. :thumb:

    /edit

    Fixed it! :D Used Ptedit to set it to FAT32 and it works fine now.
     
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