I am a very newbie to linux (3 day familiarity). I have installed opensuse10.2 on my new second harddrive of the system as dual booting with windows xp. everything went fine and i could access all the ntfs and fat32 partitions of both harddrives. suse was installed only on a 10 gb space of the second harddrive, the remaining of that harddrive was formatted as 2 or 3 drives with FAT32. suse used two partitions of ext3 of about 5 gb each and a swap drive. i could beautifully access the songs, and also could write to fat32 partitions.
then i decided to combine a few empty partitions of the harddrives via xp. after doing so, however, the grub did not load, it showed some error 15 or so. as i was not knowing how to reload it, i decided to install xp again. after formatting the c drive and installing xp, it could boot, but naturally, did not detect the linux on my last partitions. thus i again booted with suse and formatted the ext3 partitions and installed suse again. now grub is all fine. and i can use it fine.
however, suse no longer detect my other ntfs and fat2 partitions of either of harddirves and i am not able to get the songs loaded or do any other work on other drives. the The sysinfo:/ page shows only the two ext3 partitions and the removable drives. (by the way, via the yast, i changed the boot order in grub to first windows (was second before) and suse to second). can something be done to make the suse detect the other partitions and mount them? if it can be done, then, can i write files to those ntfs partitions also through linux? please help me as i have very limited knowledge of linux.
