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Using a Mac to make Windows cope with something Linux touched

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Proof that while Linux can be a real kick, it is still an acquired taste for some.

I’ve been building a new Linux box, my first in a few years. (More on that later.) Thanks to a complicated series of mistakes on my part, I wound up with a spare 40GB drive on which I’d already installed Linux. It seemed simple enough to put it in an enclosure and use it as a USB drive for my perpetually short of space Windows laptop. Windows detected the drive, and everything seemed fine, except that I couldn’t do anything at all with it. (When did Windows obliterate the disk admin tools it used to have in NT 4.0?) [Read the rest]

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