[Nottingham] Vista can't find my shared partidion

[James Gibbon]

On Tue, 16 Sep 2008 09:29:19 +0100
"Danny King" <dannyking at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> This is a borderline Linux / Vista issue so feel free to ignore if
> it's off topic.
> 
> My laptop duel boots Ubuntu & Vista and has a shared partition that
> they can both access (I can't remember if it's NTFS or FAT32, probably
> NTFS though.) Several months ago Vista stopped being able to read the
> partition - it can see it but complains that it's not accessible. I
> don't know what caused this, but the data seems fine because I can
> access it all as normal from the Ubuntu installation.
> 
> So an obvious fix it to backup and repartition, but it's quite a large
> partition so I wonder if anyone knows a way to repair it so that Vista
> doesn't puke?
> 

Hope you get your data back, but for the future, if you do repartition
you might consider using the Windows ext2 driver - it's worked very well
for me in the past.

http://www.fs-driver.org/

James