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floydian_slip

12-07-2001, 05:24 PM

I have 2 disks - 1 with Win200 pro, and the other with Mandrake. When I'm booted in Win2000 it always scans/seeks stuff on the Linux drive and repeatedly asks to format, etc. Major pain and it's slowing stuff down..

Does anybody know if disabling the device in Win2k would cause any problems to the Linux disk?

thx

[ 07 December 2001: Message edited by: floydian_slip ]

Taizong

12-07-2001, 07:27 PM

remove Win2000.

Silent Bob

12-07-2001, 08:43 PM

What filesystem is on your linux drive?

All I can get win2k to recognise is NTFS/FAT. Your 'native' (ext2/3, reiser etc.) linux partitions should be invisible to it.

scott_R

12-07-2001, 08:45 PM

I haven't used 2k, but older versions had options to select which disks/partitions to check. The way MS is going, it might be a "hidden", or command line option, but somehow I think they'd be hesitant to remove it in fear of ticking off a lot of corporate customers. Then again... :)