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by spider-man

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I am in the middle of my first experience at partioning a hard drive. My hard drive is 20gb. I am using Partition Magic 7.0. My primary OS is XP. I want to use Linux Red Hat 6.2 on the partition. I seem to have successfully created the partition as I am able to see a graph of it. Also I have been able to resize the partition to allow XP operate smoothly.

Here's the problem. I don't see a "D" drive in My Computer as I thought there would be with a partitioned drive. I have tried to use the boot disk that came with the Red Hat package to help get things going without success.

What am I doing wrong? Please help.

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by joseph moore

Ok, so you used Partiton Magic to resize your drive partitions, so XP is installed on C: drive, and you made a 2nd partition for Linux.
Ok.
If you make the 2nd partition visible in XP, I don't think that Linux will install on it. But if you want to partition the 2nd partition in XP, do this:
Right-click on My Computer -> Manage.
Go to the Disk Management section and expand it.
You will see the two different partitions on your system. The first partition should be marked as Active (System Boot). The 2nd partition should be listed as Unformatted.
YOu can then right-click the unformatted partition and choose to format it. It will also assign a drive letter to it.

Once done, you can see the new drive letter in My Computer.

hope this helps

by m3

Not seeing a "D" drive is perfectly OK if you want to install linux. The linux install routine will want to create it's own partitions, and unless you intruct it to use windows formats instead of the default (e2fs), the partitions won't be availableto windows as disk volumnes.

It might be better to leave the disk space for linux free and unpartitioned. Then the linux install routine can decide on the best partitioning layout.

by elvinogg

Familiar problem. I currently have OS2, DOS, Redhat Linux and Win 98 installed on a 2 gig HD. If you set Linux as a primary partition,it will be given the same drive letter. I use OS2 boot manager. OS2, Linux and Win 98 are all primary partitions. Whichever operating system I go to automatically becomes C drive. I have DOS in an extended logical drive which gives it a D drive letter. D Drive (DOS) is viewable from the 3 other operating systems. My DOS programs are loaded once, from DOS,and are useable from all 3 operating systems. None of the Primary operating systems can see each other. Whichever one you are in, the others are hidden.

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