I am running a dualboot comp, windows xp service pack II and Fedora core 5.

My fujitsu drive which I have assumed is something to do with linux is on my windows for some reason, now I tried moving stuff from my windows to this fujitsu drive which is drive E on my windows machine, it told me I could not.

Now here comes another major confusion. On my windows machine 9gigs has suddenly disappeared, literally and I searched around my hardrive and couldn't find why. The only logical explaination is this Fujitsu drive which appeared around the same time as my 9 gigs left.

Can anyone explain to me what the Fujitsu thing is, how to utilize it, and if they think this could be causal for my loss of such significant space.

Not really enough information provided.

Fujitsu is a name of a company that manufactures hard drives.

I am totally confused by your post. "My windows machine" is this is the same dual boot computer that you started this thread about? Do you have more then one drive in this PC?


Look at the output of the console dmesg command. When the hard drive is recognized during boot up information is read from the drive including the manufactures name and model number of the drive.

How is the drive partitioned? I've seen some threads in the past where windows for some unknown reason recognized non-windows partitons.
Post the output of the following command (must be root)
fdisk -l (that is a small L)

Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40007761920 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4864 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 3525 28314531 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2 * 3526 3538 104422+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 3539 4864 10651095 8e Linux LVM
[root@ip-181-157 ~]#

Same computer, sorry for the confusion, it's a dualboot, and when I bootwindows I notice this "Fujitsu" hardrive titled "Local E" and I don't know whereit came from. Perhaps i accidently installed it? I don't know!?

Thank you for any help you can give.

The drive partitions look ok and the paritition sizes look ok too.
Your linux install uses approx 10GB of the total drive space.

I didn't have any luck finding previous threads on windows recognizing non windows partitions. The e: drive is either the /boot or the Logical Volume Management (LVM) partition and I would not try to access it or you could corrupt your linux install.

So just leave it be?

The problem I have with that is my windows has mysteriously lost 9 gigs. I'm saying out of no where! The memory disappeared the same time that Fujitsu appeared. Yet I checked my space, I have 5.3 gigs left on my linux. So the space wasn't allotted to linux either.