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installed linux on an old hdd and now i can't see the hdd in my computer folder???

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Name: Bill
Date: January 3, 2001 at 15:00:24 Pacific
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i had an older computer with an 8.4gig hdd in it that i thought would be ok for linux. i had tried to install storm,mandrake and turbo linux on the hdd in a different computer b4 but i did not have any success, so i put the hdd back in the old computer and tried installing corel on it. i now try to start the computer up but i get nothing, no boot screen. all i get is lots of beeps. i took the hdd out so i could try and format it in another computer, but when i put it in this computer with win2k on it and it showed the 8.4 gig hdd in my bios but it does not show it in the my computer folder. it does however show it in the device manager. how do i get the linux hdd to show up in win2k? thanks, Bill



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Name: Raa
Date: January 3, 2001 at 15:18:35 Pacific
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I don't know about Linux, but I do beleive that it uses a file system that is not compatible with windows, therefor windows cannot see it.

The only way to see it would be to reformat it back to FAT16 FAT32 or NTFS

Raa


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