Quote Originally Posted by Dave_Bechtel
If I were you, I'd backup the data (zip is a good option, you can even do it from Linux - ' man zip '), reformat the drive for FAT32 and restore. NTFS is a pain for compatibility, Linux barely supports read-only for it.
Quote Originally Posted by jmassengill

Well, after changing the settings in the BIOS of the PC and the BIOS of the drive, it finally did "see" the drive! (i used the expert mode to boot with so i could see what was going on) and because the drive was formatted NTFS(under windows 2000) it gave an error "Kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on 01:01"
if anyone knows a way to get around this error, I am all ears
Thanks in advance
Johnny Massengill
I'd say Dave is right. If you want to access files on a windows partition, you really should just reformat and use FAT32. It's a pain but it works. If you want to have a dedicated machine running windows then you can try samba.