Hard drive with no drive letter

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I just installed a hard drive as master on IDE 1 this drive has Mandrake installed on it.
The other drive has win 98se, both drive's works OK, The BIOS sees the drives When using the windows hard drive there is no drive letter assignd to the drive with Mandrake installed, is this because of the format that Linux uses to identify the drive?
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[Reel]

windows 98 can't read the file system used by linux. you can read windows file systems on linux though using samba.

 

[Bleep]

Thanks for the reply and I understand what you are saying but I dont understand why it wont assign a drive letter, if both OS were on the same drive would it assign a drive letter to both partitions?
It probably dont make a whole lot of difference but I want to install KNOPPIX on a partition on the HD that has the mandrake on it and I cannot seem to figure it out as the instructions that I have for KNOPPIX you have to boot the program from the CD rom drive and I donot seem to be able to do that and navigate to the right Hard Drive for the install..

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[sechs]

It doesn't assign a drive letter because it can't read it. As far as Windows knows, the partition is empty.

Samba doesn't read Windows volumes, the FAT and NTFS file system modules do. Samba is used to attach to SMB (Windows) networks.

 

[Bleep]

Thanks I got it in my thick head now.

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[GigaCluster]

If your Mandrake partition is ext2/3, you can download a Windows utility to fetch your files from it.

 

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i dont need to exchange files, I am just trying to learn a little about Linux.

Thanks
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[Lithium381]

windows saw my drive once and it didn't have a drive letter, turned out it wasn't partitioned nor formated(high level).....so ran fdisk, and format, and bam, it all works great now........they dont' play nice together.....linux and windows that is......