cptaylor

Here's the somewhat long story... On my old drive I had MD9.2 and Win98 dual booting using Lilo. I began having frequent crashes in Win98 and scandisk was finding bad sectors occasionally. Finally Linux would hang when trying to boot repeating the error "hda: lost interupt". So I decided to get a new drive, make it the primary master and install WinXP while I was at it. The install went fine but XP does not recognize that there is a second drive. It should be able to see the Win98 partition. I thought the drive may have finally died but I switched my BIOS to boot to the old drive (primary slave). Lilo came up and I was still able to load Win98 (which of course cannot see the NTFS partition). When I run the hardware intallation utility in XP I get a quick message down by the clock that says XP found new hardware but there was a problem. I checked the system event viewer and found the following errors relating to the old drive: The device, \Device\Ide\IdePort0, did not respond within the timeout period. The device 'WDC AC313600D' (IDE\DiskWDC_AC313600D___________________________J7JOA30K\4457572d36543137343035393835203320202020) disappeared from the system without first being prepared for removal. It seems that XP is finding the drive but is having some kind of problem with it. If Win98 can still boot on the drive I would think it is still sound enough that XP should be able to access it. I know XP isn't fond of Linux but having Lilo in the boot sector shouldn't prevent access to the Win98 partition should it? Does any one have any thoughts? In the short term I would like to be able to copy my files from the old drive but I think it would also be useful as extra storage and for transferring files between XP and Linux. Putting on MD10.0 will be my next task. :) It'll likely be ready by the time I finish setting up XP. Thanks, Chris

You're right, the files do just have a dot at the beginning. I am able to list the files and can rename them through Konquerer. However, I'd like to rename them from a script. The 'mv' and 'rename' commands do not see them since they are hidden. Perhaps, there's a way to pipe the results of 'ls -a' into the 'mv' command? I probably should point out that I'm trying to use wildcards. For example, the following commands would not find the hidden file: '.foo.bar'. mv .* *

I'm sure this is a silly question but I can't figure out how to unhide files via the shell or script. D4X hides partially completed downloads. It doesn't always unhide them properly when complete. I have tried using 'mv' and 'rename' without success. They both do not see the hidden files. Is there a way to get either one to see and rename the hidden files. Thanks.