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Originally Posted by
Tony_photoplus
I need to gain access therefore, from XP to the drive and dig out some files, but XP doesn't want to see that drive.
XP likely sees it just fine, and has no idea how to deal with it. Windows understands only NTFS and FAT filesystems, and neither have the fundamental features UNIX is based on. There
is an addon for windows to let it understand ext2 or ext3 filesystems, if that's what Mint is using.
Ext2 IFS For Windows