Hi,,

I installed my 120 Gb HHD that I had in a USB enclosure on my computer. It have 2 partitions one NTFS and FAT32 which Linux can see without any problems.. The problem is that Win XP wont see them anymore and the whole idea of installing it is to have an intermediate media between the 2 OSs so that I can transfere files,,

Anyway I managed to clear the harddisk and now want to format it so that Windows and linux can see it and write on it..

I know I will have to format FAT32/vfat but how should I do that? Should I do it from win or linux? I want it to be compatible with both..


Will love to hear ur ideas..

Thanx

hi,
u can format a partition by filesystem vfat with windows or linux and is quiet compatible
My recomendation is to install windows xp first on a NTFS partition to avoid mbr problem.Atfer that u can use the computer management to create fat32 paritions and leave free space for installing linux
Then install linux.Actually u can create and format a partition with vfat during installion(using windows installation setup and disk druid for linux) or after the installation of OS
even there are patches to read from ntfs partitions on the website www.linux-ntfs.org.
regards,
Tom.