data in partition, not shown in windows, y?

[legolas]

Hi ppl,

i have windows xp and fedora core 5 installed. Since NTFS writing is not yet supported/harmful, i created a FAT32 partition to enable me transfer between the stuffs i dl in linux and windows. But now, i dl somethin in linux and copied it to the FAT32 partition. but in windows, i cudnt see the data. ihave given all permissions to the file in linux. but still i am not able to see it. will those files be visible only in linux? y is that?

thks,
legolas.

[mehulved]

Nope this can't be so. files written on FAT partition can be viewed in both linux and windows. There's no use of permissions in FAT partition as FAT doesn't store permissions. So, you should see the files in windows too.
Do you see the partition? Are you sure you made a partition only?

Also, post output of fdisk -l

[legolas]

Disk /dev/hdc: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdc1 2 19457 156280320 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hdc5 2 5312 42660576 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hdc6 5313 9249 31623921 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hdc7 9250 10269 8193118+ b W95 FAT32
/dev/hdc8 * 10270 10282 104391 83 Linux
/dev/hdc9 10283 12207 15462531 8e Linux LVM
/dev/hdc10 12208 19457 58235593+ 7 HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/hdd: 40.0 GB, 40060403712 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4870 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdd1 * 1 4870 39118243+ 7 HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 19457 156288321 7 HPFS/NTFS



this is the o/p

thks,
legolas.

[mehulved]

Oh well I can see two FAT partitions. Does windows detect those partitions or no? Also, check in windows disk management if the partitions are properly detected.

[QwertyManiac]

Err.. if you can see it on Linux, go to Windows now, Tools > Folder Options > View tab > Deselect Hidden File and System File show option. Now see if you can view the files :confused:

If its just hidden, remove that arrtibute via the Properties of the file. If its system file type hiding, run ATTRIB function on the file with a -s parameter.

[legolas]

there is only 1 fat partition. and qwerty maniac, i tried what u said. dint work! :(

thks,
legolas.

[eddie]

Go to Start --> Run and there type "compmgmt.msc". Then press Enter. In the next window that opens, expand "Storage" tree and then click on "Disk Management". You should get a window similar to the linked image
http://www.mcmcse.com/microsoft/guides/images/compmgmt2.gif
You take a screenshot of your window and attach it here.

[legolas]

here.

http://img102.imageshack.us/img102/9997/untitled2sx3.th.jpg (http://img102.imageshack.us/my.php?image=untitled2sx3.jpg)

/legolas.

[Rollercoaster]

Disk /dev/hdc: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdc1 2 19457 156280320 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hdc5 2 5312 42660576 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hdc6 5313 9249 31623921 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hdc7 9250 10269 8193118+ b W95 FAT32
/dev/hdc8 * 10270 10282 104391 83 Linux
/dev/hdc9 10283 12207 15462531 8e Linux LVM
/dev/hdc10 12208 19457 58235593+ 7 HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/hdd: 40.0 GB, 40060403712 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4870 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdd1 * 1 4870 39118243+ 7 HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 19457 156288321 7 HPFS/NTFS


there is something i noticed.. in ur hdc there is no primary partition and only a LBA extended(same shown by ur screenshot). afaik these is something wrong with this partition table

[arunks]

i also think same

[djmykey]

Ok u see that I can see 360 GB of disk space out there :shock:

[legolas]

yes, i havnt configured a primary. is that got to do anything with the data in the FAT32? coz my windows and linux jus work fine except for this.

[eddie]

Windows seem to be seeing a FAT32 partition with letter M but it is completely empty! Are you sure that you copied the data from your Linux install to this partition correctly? Did you actually mount the FAT32 partition in your linux install before copying the files?

Can you give us the output of the commands "cat /etc/fstab" and "cat /etc/mtab" (without quotes) from your linux installation?

[Rollercoaster]

hey man isnt it necessary to have a primery partition? ur HDC has no primary partition... may be due to that...

do one thing(usinf linux).. copy all the stuff from the fat32 folder to another partition. format it and copy data back. my be there is something wrong with the formatting of the partition.

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also why dont u experiment by installing xp on one of ur other partitions and see if this problem is not of ur XP OS.

[legolas]

yeah. i ll o/p the commands eddie has askedfor and also try out the formatting thing roller coaster has suggested. sorry cant install xp again n all. jus not installed xp and after that installed FC5.

/legolas

o/p of /etc/fstab


/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 / ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hdd1 /mnt/windows ntfs ro,defaults,umask=0222 0 0
/dev/sda1 /mnt/external ntfs ro,defaults,umask=0222 0 0
/dev/hdc5 /mnt/xvids ntfs ro,defaults,umask=0222 0 0
/dev/hdc6 /mnt/softwares ntfs ro,defaults,umask=0222 0 0
/dev/hdc10 /mnt/bitme ntfs ro,defaults,umask=0222 0 0
/dev/hdc7 /mnt/linuxpart vfat rw,deafults,umask=0222 0


o/p of /etc/mtab

/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 / ext3 rw 0 0
proc /proc proc rw 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,gid=5,mode=620 0 0
/dev/hdc8 /boot ext3 rw 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0
/dev/hdd1 /mnt/windows ntfs ro,umask=0222 0 0
/dev/sda1 /mnt/external ntfs ro,umask=0222 0 0
/dev/hdc5 /mnt/xvids ntfs ro,umask=0222 0 0
/dev/hdc6 /mnt/softwares ntfs ro,umask=0222 0 0
/dev/hdc10 /mnt/bitme ntfs ro,umask=0222 0 0
none /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc binfmt_misc rw 0 0
sunrpc /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs rpc_pipefs rw 0 0
automount(pid1952) /net autofs rw,fd=4,pgrp=1952,minproto=2,maxproto=4 0 0


/legolas

guys,

thk you very much. i managed to solve the issue. it was actually very blunt mistake on my part. i checked online and changed the umask = 0222 to umask = 0000 in the vfat related partition and also added another 0 in the extreme right. and it worked. thks a lot guys!!!

/legolas