Hi,
I had installed windows-xp + Redhat 9.0 on an intel box.
I had initially used 35 GB for Windows and 4.5 GB for Linux + .5 GB for
swap .
Now I bought a new Hard disk (120 GB). I had made 4 NTFS partitions out
of it and left out 10 GB without formatting it(to able to convert into
ext3).
But now with Linux I see only the first NTFS partition.(rest all seem
to have vanished!!)
The output "dmesg" shows the following:
<start>
Partition check:
hda: hda1
hdc: [PTBL] [4865/255/63] hdc1 hdc2 < hdc5 hdc6 hdc7 hdc8 hdc9 hdc10 >
</end>

"hdc" is my earlier hard-disk. /dev/hdc9 is my ext3 partition with
Linux installed and /dev/hdc10 is my swap.
"/dev/hda1" is the only NTFS partition I'm able to see on my Linux.
Redhat didnot have support for NTFS; I had to install the NTFS support
driver, but I'm sure this doesnot have anything to do with the
detection of the disks.
Any hints?

Thanks for all the replies in advance.
Ravindra.

mdavila78

I think that Redhat 9 couldn't mount an NTFS partition. That is why it
is better to install windows using FAT then you can read it from RH 9
without any problems.

ivan marsh

Sure it can. It's just not built into the kernel by default.

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NTFS partitions can be accessed only if the NTFS driver is installed.
I installed it.
What i had done was that I had divided my hard disk into NTFS
partitions.
Now all i see on Linux is a 20GB partition.The others are not
accessible.

Thanks,
Ravindra.

erik gawtry

Just an idea - are the other NTFS partitions on an Extended partition? You
might want to make them all primary partitions...