Try open qtparted and see if that partition is set to hide.
I have two separate hdd's. one for my knoppix installation and one for my windows installation. the windows hdd is the master and linux is on the slave drive. i installed knoppix 3.6 and it seemed to install fine. i can access all the partitions from knoppix without a problem. however, thats not the case for windows. when i go to windows, obviously, the system partition shows up fine. thats not the case for the other two partitions though. they don't show up as a drive. i can see the two partitions under the disk management mmc though. the partitions show up as healthly ntfs partitions and i can even see the name of the partition that i had originally assigned to it. there just isn't a drive letter assigned to the two partitons anymore. i guess what i'm asking, in a sense, is how can i remount my windows partitions? this might not be the right place to ask that question but the question that is appropriate for this thread is what does the knoppix installer do during installation that could have possibly corrupted my windows partition table? oh, btw, i installed lilo to my mbr as my boot manager, but i didn't think that any partition information is saved to the mbr. thanks in advance for anyone that can help me.
Try open qtparted and see if that partition is set to hide.
you were right, the partitions were hidden under qtparted. however, i'm not sure thats the problem. when i try to unhide, it says that its unhidden. i restart the system, go back to windows, and its still not showing up. so i restart and go back to linux, and its hidden again. i thought this was a problem because i was using the 2.4 kernel and my partitions were ntfs. so i tried it in the 2.6 kernel. i did the same thing as before. this time when i restarted, i couldn't even boot into windows. so now all i got is linux. not bad i guess... but i was hoping to get some windows functionality back.
Mkae sure after you unhide you hit commit to save the changes.Originally Posted by majikman
i did commit the changes. any other suggestions?
Try using different partition manager to unhide those partition, ex:
http://www.ranish.com/part/
http://www.sofotex.com/3D-Partition-...oad_L1884.html
If the above doesn't work, try use grub with menu.lst something like this,
EX:
# /boot/grub/menu.lst
#
# options
timeout = 30
default = 1
title = Linux
root = (hd1,0)
kernel = /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb1
title Win98A
unhide (hd0,0)
hide (hd0,1)
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1
title Win98b
unhide (hd0,1)
hide (hd0,0)
rootnoverify (hd0,1)
makeactive
chainloader +1[/b]
Dell OptiPlex 3060 MICRO DESKTOP PC COMPUTER I5 8TH GEN UP TO 32GB UP TO 2TB M.2
$350.00
HP Desktop i5 OR I7 Computer Mini PC Up To 32GB RAM 2TB SSD Windows 10 Pro WiFi
$220.00
Dell 14" TOUCHSCREEN IntelQuadCore 16GB RAM up to 512GB SSD Fingerprint BT Win11
$235.00
HP Workstation Z640 2x Xeon E5-2623V4 32GB Ram 2x 256GB SSD Quadro 2000 Linux GA
$212.49
Intel - Core i5-13600K 13th Gen 14 cores 6 P-cores + 8 E-cores 24M Cache, 3.5...
$314.99
Intel Core i9-13900K Raptor Lake 24-Core (8P+16E) Desktop Processor CPU
$474.98
Intel Xeon E5-2667 V4 SR2P5 (3.2GHZ/8-CORE/25MB/135W) PROCESSOR CPU
$29.95
Intel - Core i7-13700K 13th Gen 16 cores 8 P-cores + 8 E-cores 30M Cache, 3.4...
$449.99
Dell Optiplex 5040 MT Core i5-6500 3.20GHZ 8GB RAM 256GB SSD Win 10 Pro WiFi
$89.99
CHUWI CoreBox X Windows 10 Mini PC Intel Core i7 Desktop 8+256GB SSD 4K Decoding
$149.99