Hi! I've just installed Linux Suse 7.3 Pro onto my second hard drive, so that I have the following partition setup. hd0a Fat32 hd0b Fat32 hd0c Fat32 hd1a Fat32 hd1b Fat32 hd1c Linux hd1d Linux Swap This all works fine and I'm using Lilo to dual boot with Win98se, except when ever I boot partitions hd0b and hd0c are always converted to hidden Fat32s. If I bott to DOS using a boot disk I can restore the partitions and data to Fat32s. However if I then boot into either Windows or Linux they are set as hidden. Any ideas how I can stop them from being set as hidden partitions - it is extreamly frustrating... Regards Chris

i don't have much experience in using Linux but i thought Linux display your hdd partitions as hda1 - hda? or hdb1 - hdb?. May be it's different with SuSE. I suppose your hd0b and hd0c are primary partitions and hd0a is where you have your Win 98. If that's the case then hd0b and hd0c won't show up. Try to convert them to logical partitions then i'm sure they would show up (Win 98 doesn't like other primary partitions apart from the one that it's on). How could it be hidden in Linux? You have to mount or tell fstab to mount them anyway. Another tip : don't put your swap partition at the end of your drive, read speed is slowest there. Try to put it as close to the beginning (circular motion - the further you are away from the centre the larger the linear speed more data covered) If there's any problem just email me. I'll be glad to help nam

I am having the same problem - it loks to me like a problem with 'mount' in 7.3 - I'm trying to get in touch with SuSE to get some more answers on this. I'm afraid the rpevious poster is wrong, though - this is not a windows problem, but a SuSE one - for others examining this, the problem exactly is: windows FAT-32 partitions either mounted on boot (in /etc/fstab) or using the 'mount' command have their partition table id changed from 'c' - FAT-32 to '1c' - Hidden FAT-32, on issuing mount from the command line I have also sometimes found that all but the first FAT-32 partition is changed to 1c, but the first is left as c.