while instaling ubuntu i did 1 small mistake

now my one file partition is not showing in windows
its visible in ubuntu but not in windows!!

"in advanced partition marked my ntfs F:/ as ext3, then realised the mistake and undo it... but now nothing is deleted from F:/ its just that F:/ is not visible in windows n i can access it from ubuntoo"

Thanks in advance :)

Question

while instaling ubuntu i did 1 small mistake

now my one file partition is not showing in windows
its visible in ubuntu but not in windows!!

"in advanced partition marked my ntfs F:/ as ext3, then realised the mistake and undo it... but now nothing is deleted from F:/ its just that F:/ is not visible in windows n i can access it from ubuntoo"

Thanks in advance :)

anonymous · Answer

please tell me to make it mount in windowss

anonymous · Answer

window doesn't recognize ext3 or any other type of linux partition. You can only reformat and repartition.

anonymous · Answer

Well I sughest you to look in google:
How  to mount a Linux Partiotion in Windows 

I did it once, there's plenty of programs around, I did it to take some files I store in Linux (Ubuntu) but when I updated it, it had an error, and I could no longer get in Linux using the traditional way (booting up os, login in, etc...) so I used my windows partition, look up some ext3 or linux partition reader for windows, i installed like 3 of them, but only one of them really work for me, I succesfully got the critical data I stored in linux, via windows and reformated Linux(Ubuntu) to fix the  problem...

anonymous · Answer

Can i know the output of df -T in Linux terminal ?

a_clan · Answer

Were you trying to dual boot windows and linux? If Linux is new to you, I would suggest you use software "Microsoft Virtual PC". This way you will not have to dual boot or make any Linux partition(ext3/ext4) on your system. Instead you will startup Windows, run Virtual PC, and Ubuntu is up and running on Windows platform! You will not lose any drive this way. Virtual PC will allot as much hard disk space and RAM to Ubuntu  on a drive, as much as you assign. And the best part is, you will be able to do almost all the tasks on a virtually installed Ubuntu as you can do on a ubuntu in separate partition!
      Above information will be relevant if you are a beginner. The same problem occurred to me when I was learning LINUX (Fedora).
 -     Now, for your lost drive. If you have already deleted F: drive or even if not, and now want it back, you don't need to format the entire computer and re-partition. ( For Windows Vista) Instead, go to START menu, right-click on COMPUTER (My Computer), and click MANAGE. A window by the name of COMPUTER MANAGEMENT will open. Click DISK MANAGEMENT in the left-pane of window. You will be able to see graphical bar representation of your disk with all the inherent partitions. You may also be able to see UNALLOCATED SPACE in this graph, whose size is equal to or greater than that of your lost partition. Now right-click on this space and click NEW SIMPLE VOLUME and follow the instructions to create a new partition out of this Unallocated Space with or without the same partition name as before (F:). Remember that, since you will be formatting this partition while creating F: drive, all the data on this memory space will be lost if there were any. Now you have the system  in a state as it was prior to installing Ubuntu on this drive. 
-       After you have learned LINUX to a satisfactory level, you may then try installing LINUX on a separate drive, maybe again F:, and dual boot your system. But do not forget to remove your data from this drive. And yes LINUX partition will not be visible on Windows, there is nothing to panic about it. Windows partition, though, will be visible on LINUX. That is LINUX advantage!

anonymous · Answer

Yeah, But as I explained earlier, there are applications that run in Windows to be able to mount or see Linux partitions, so it is handy and most of them are free.

anonymous · Answer

@fr33 n john

its not an ext3 file system

my drive is ntfs
i just marked it as ntfs while dual boot then unmarked thats all i did n evrything got messed up

anonymous · Answer

@everyone

thanks for the reply but the situation is a little curious
all my data of F: are visible in ubuntu but the whole drive is not visible in windows
and F: is still "ntfs"

anonymous · Answer

well If you have more than 3partitions windows 7 will not mount.Windows 7 can mount oly 3 partitions

anonymous · Answer

if F: is ntfs then is visible in ubuntu, unless there's something wrong, and u have to install the ntf3g tools to read ntfs partition in Ubunty Linux...