Accessing FAT32 from Linux

Ken Zhao zhaoke at gmail.com
Sat Nov 19 08:08:20 UTC 2005


Do u try using sfdisk -a for viewing any existing fat32 partition?
 On 11/19/05, peter wu <pwu95 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Hi, all,
>
> I installed Windows XP and created a FAT32 partition following Microsoft's
> suggestion. (
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;310525) Basically,
> I used Disk Management of Windows XP to create a FAT32 partition. After
> that, I installed Fedora 4 on unused hard drive.
>
> Now, I can access data in the FAT32 partition from Windows XP (NTFS);
> however, I cannot access data from Fedora. When I used PartitionMagic to
> make a FAT32 partition, I was able to access it from Linux. (Because
> PartitionMagic somehow screwed up partition table while doing some
> modification to my dual-boot system, I had to reinstall Windows XP and tried
> Microsoft's way instead to partition this time.) What did I possibly do
> wrong?
>
> Thanks for your help, in advance.
>
> --peter
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