Windows Can't Open Second HD

[mcjohnalds45]

I'm using an almost fresh install windows XP and I can't see my second hard drive with Linux Mint installed on it in My Computer however I can see it in the BIOS and the disk management screen, it is formatted as a FAT32 rather than an NTFS but according to http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310525 FAT32 is supported on XP so that shouldn't be a problem.

Disk 1 is the second hard drive and all the options such as "mark as active" or "change drive letter" are grayed out, anyone got any ideas?

 

[rolli59]

What happens if you click the Healthy partition?

 

[nhasian]

if you installed linux mint on that partition then it would be an EXT4 not FAT32 or NTFS partition and windows requires a special driver to be able to read linux partitions.

http://www.ext2fsd.com/

 

[mcjohnalds45]

Best answer selected by mcjohnalds45.

 

[mcjohnalds45]

if you installed linux mint on that partition then it would be an EXT4 not FAT32 or NTFS partition and windows requires a special driver to be able to read linux partitions.

http://www.ext2fsd.com/

Thanks heaps nhasian, ext2fsd works great!