I am completely new to linux. I mean completely new. Just bought Redhat 9 the other day and tried to dual boot it on a dell computer that now runs Windows XP. I have 30 gig hard drive internal (that XP is on) and an HP 80 gig external USB hard drive. I ran "Disk Druid" program up to the point of making the partitions. I was going to leave the Windows as is on the internal drive and partition the external drive using the "free space" and making 3 partitions as they suggest in the manual. The drive now has just a few back-ups on it that take up 6 or 7 gigs. When I went to choose this drive (the USB, external) to install the Redhat, I noticed that it didn't exist on the list. It just showed the internal drive and it's partitions. Does linux not recognize USB drives? Any advice would be greatly appreciated. And please remember, I am completely new to this and probably wouldn't recognize any lingo specific to linux. Thanks a lot in advance.

just giving a shot here:

does ur USB HD plug and play? because it needs OS to be recongize and the BIOS doesn't.... then i believe linux won't see ur hd.

if you can try get your hd recongize at boot time, then i think linux should be able to see it, but if ur hd won't recongize until win low, then yea.... it may not work


hope it help