ardizzo5 Posted June 12, 2006 Share Posted June 12, 2006 I have recently dual booted osx and xp on my dell e1405 and both work well independently. However, I cannot access the windows partition from osx. The windows partition is a fat32 partition, so what do I do? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/19594-sharing-between-osx-and-xp/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
free30 Posted June 12, 2006 Share Posted June 12, 2006 Details? How big is it? Have you tried mounting it? Whats your set up? What OS version are you using? What patches have you allpied? What drivers have you installed? free30 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/19594-sharing-between-osx-and-xp/#findComment-128346 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ardizzo5 Posted June 12, 2006 Author Share Posted June 12, 2006 I used the goatsecx 10.4.6 version on a dell inspiron e1405. The osx partition is 20 gb and the windows partition is 30 gb. I have tried mounting it but it just doesnt do anything. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/19594-sharing-between-osx-and-xp/#findComment-128486 Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackSlater Posted June 14, 2006 Share Posted June 14, 2006 I kinda have the same problem. I used Mac's Disk Manager to create a 35GB Mac partition, a 22GB fat32 partition to share files with Vista and a 23GB partition for Vista. Mac OsX can access the "shared" fat32 partition but it messes up the data. example: i copied my documents to a folder i called "documents" and then I copied my mp3s to a folder I called "music". after copying the mp3's MacOSX shows me 2 folders called "music" with both times the exact same content (my mp3's). I cannot access the documents folder in the finder, but they are still there. I know that cuz I have my own html startpage stored in that folder and safari opens it up every time and i can see it (and my other documents) with the correct path when i search for them in spotlight. could it be that for some reason the finder has problems reading fat32 partitions? I'm new to macosx so i don't know how or where to look for a solution. i guess for the time beeing i have to access my documents by searching for them in spotlight. i will try to set up a smart folder for documents in the finder, maybe that'll help. i'll get back to y'all with my findings... never mind, a restart did the trick. after rebooting i had my documents folder, my music folder, and a 3rd folder named "untitled" with a 2nd copy of my mp3s. i deleted that 3rd one and now i'm back on track... weird thing, though. i hope this doesnt happen every time i copy stuff to that partition... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/19594-sharing-between-osx-and-xp/#findComment-129385 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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