Regarding partitioning

Madhusudhanan Chandrasekaran <mc79 RemoveThis @cse.buffalo.edu> wrote:
> Is there any way of recovering a linux partition(That I dont use) to
> NTFS?.

Run some partitioning tool (e.g. "cfdisk /dev/hda") and change
the partition's filesystem type to "NTFS". Windows should recoginze
it as a new drive letter the next time you boot it. You'll need
to reformat it, presumably by right-clicking in Windows Explorer.

Needless to say, be careful not to clobber anything important
when you run the partitioning tool.

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pa at panix dot com

In message <co5l9a$lmg$1@reader1.panix.com>, Pierre Asselin
<pa RemoveThis @see.signature.invalid> writes
>Madhusudhanan Chandrasekaran <mc79 RemoveThis @cse.buffalo.edu> wrote:
>> Is there any way of recovering a linux partition(That I dont use) to
>> NTFS?.
>
>Run some partitioning tool (e.g. "cfdisk /dev/hda") and change
>the partition's filesystem type to "NTFS". Windows should recoginze
>it as a new drive letter the next time you boot it. You'll need
>to reformat it, presumably by right-clicking in Windows Explorer.
>
>Needless to say, be careful not to clobber anything important
>when you run the partitioning tool.
>
Probably, but Windows sometimes gets rather prim and refuses to touch a
partition it hasn't made itself. If that happens, use the Linux tool to
delete the partition altogether, and Windows will be happy to use the
unpartitioned space.
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Joe