Formatting linux drive with windows

[Jojo7]

So I've got this 37gb scsi drive with suse linux on it. I just put it into a windows 2000 server machine.
Am I wrong in thinking that windows will not recognize this drive? I know it was formatted with a non-windows native file system.

How can I format the drive so I can use it in windows? Pop in the linux cd and format using fat32? Can I do that? Since it's a scsi drive, I know I can't use a win98 boot disk with fdisk.

I need some ideas.

 

[Crusty]

Just go into Computer Management under Control Panel and delete all the partitions on it and recreate them as needed.

 

[Jojo7]

Right. Disk management, but will it even show up there since windows does not understand the linux file system?

 

[drag]

Linux still uses the same partitioning sceme that Windows uses (as dictated by x86 ISA, or whatever).

So Windows will still see the partitions, it just won't be able to mount them or anything. Seems to me that they would be able to format them, too, since all that means is overwriting whatever exist in the partition with whatever is needed to make a fat/ntfs partition.


If it's not able to format it into a file system that Windows can deal with, then the windows management software is even more retarded then I assume it to be. If that's the case, boot up with a Linux disk (like knoppix for instance) and format it with that into a form that Windows understands (namely fat32). (or better yet, just delete the partitions and partition and format using Windows.)

 

[imported_pak9rabid]

partition magic is good for this type of thing, if the built-in windows tools are of no help.

 

[Jojo7]

Well, it looks like you guys were right.

I was able to hook up the scsi drive and it showed up in disk management. The file system on each of the 3 partitions were "unknown" but I was able to delete them and formatted it with ntfs in windows.

Thanks again.