fattymcbluff Posted June 4, 2007 CID Share Posted June 4, 2007 ok i just installed linux i have a slave drive that i keep my music and movies etc. i want to be able to write to that drive from both linux and xp if i convert the drive from ntfs to fat 32 with partitionmagic 8 will i loose all the data on that drive? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJVageli Posted June 4, 2007 CID Share Posted June 4, 2007 Hope this here helps you http://faq.arstechnica.com/link.php?i=1820 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudmanc4 Posted June 4, 2007 CID Share Posted June 4, 2007 You must be careful when doing this, I'm no total guru on Linux , but I have done extensive reading on the Linux file system, and she's nothing like any other,I believe there are ways to access the other file systems , but be careful, you may lose all data on slave drive. Here's a good resource link. Do some reading and investigating on this, you may find other ways that may suit you better. http://tldp.org/LDP/intro-linux/html/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swimmer Posted June 4, 2007 CID Share Posted June 4, 2007 This should allow you to mount an NTFS directory with out having to format to FAT 32.. If you were to format to FAT 32 I believe you loose everything. http://en.opensuse.org/NTFS BTW I have not tested this to know if it works 100% Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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