fc3 partition shows up in windows explorer

Heon2574 · #1 5th January 2005, 06:45 AM

Currently I have XP and FC3 on a dual-boot system (one 160GB hard drive and a 30GB drive for misc data). Before, Windows had one 80GB primary NTFS partition and the rest was unallocated space. Then I installed FC3 and i told it to use existing free space during the install. I accepted the default partition scheme and was glad windows xp and FC3 could live peacefully on my system.

However, I noticed a Drive G. I think this drive G is showing up because the partition is a LVM partition. How do I get rid of this linux partition from showing up in explorer?

brahms · #2 5th January 2005, 10:56 AM

You can't. The partition exists and therefore will show up in Windows' partition manager.

imdeemvp · #3 5th January 2005, 11:09 AM

So if you delete it you may also delete fedora......

explosive · #4 5th January 2005, 06:25 PM

Hi,

The same thing happened for me, so I downloaded TweakUi for windows Xp http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/d...powertoys.mspx

Once you have downloaded and installed it, there is an option under "drives" that allows you to select which drives you want to have shown in windows xp. simply uncheck the Fedora one

Heon2574 · #5 5th January 2005, 09:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by explosive

Hi,

The same thing happened for me, so I downloaded TweakUi for windows Xp http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/d...powertoys.mspx

Once you have downloaded and installed it, there is an option under "drives" that allows you to select which drives you want to have shown in windows xp. simply uncheck the Fedora one

Thanks! That did it.

onegative · #6 18th October 2005, 07:17 PM

Anyone found a way to do this in XP 64? AFAIK, TweakUI isn't 64 bit ready.

Thanks

o-negative

niko@zju · #7 22nd October 2005, 06:16 AM

thanks.it works

mobsta · #8 22nd October 2005, 06:52 AM

To remove it the proper way go to Control Panel>Administrative tool>Computer Management. Then click on Disk Management. Find he linux partition and right click and sellect Change Drive Letter and Path option. Click on the remove button and you're done. This just removes the mount point and does not touch the partition in any way. Using this you can mount your drives and partitions under directories the same way you do it in linux.

Good Luck

nvmkpk · #9 22nd October 2005, 08:23 AM

Using TweakUI just hides the drive and doesn't prevent any access to the drive. You can still access the drive in command prompt or by typing the drive letter with ':' in addressbar or run dialog.