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Well, the /etc/fstab and fdisk -l look good to me - are you sure that you have actually formatted /dev/hde5? Can you read it under windoze, or do you get "Invalid media type" when you type DIR at the DOS prompt? Pigeon Nah, I have files and directories there under Windows XP, no problem. One thought. I partitioned the first drive (hde, 160GB Western Digital using WD software. The second drive (hdf, also 160GB... after all, you can never have enough storage) had to be formatted using the native MS partition utility in Windows XP. It truncated the second partition on the second drive so that I only have a total of 120GB available. I wonder if somewhere therein isn't the source of the difficulties in recognizing that partition under linux Another consideration. I could get a copy of Partition Magic 6 (I now have v5) and try to repartition that drive (I believe it can be done using PM without losing the data) and see whether that fixes matters Or... if I copied off the data in Windows (or linux), could I then repartition hdf... say in linux to suit myself, presumably gaining the entire 160GB, or giving some of it to Windows and using the upper part for linux... or some variation thereof A significant postscript: Without knowingly having taken any action, I can now fully read BOTH partitions on /hdf (both ntfs format) I can read (as before) /hde1 (ntfs format), but still cannot read /hde5, a fat32 partition What mischievousness have I been up to? Well I installed and then uninstalled Samba using apt-get (thinking it might support heterogenous access to the internet). Another fleeting change is that my listings on xterm were in powder blue and green. Suddenly they're gone. I thought that was 'ls', but it's not happening now -- David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
