Creating a partion with mkfs.ntfs and not seeing it in windows 7 - why ?

[shimi]

On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 7:38 PM, Dan Shimshoni <danshimsh at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> I create a partition in Linux (on a dual boot Fedora/windows 7  machine) by
> mkfs.ntfs /dev/sda6
>
> The operation succeeded ok.
> I can see the NTFS partition in linux by fdisk -l.
>
> However, when I booted into windows 7 on this machine I could not
> see that partition in windows explorer nor in "disk management"
>
>
What *do* you see in Disk Management?

6 is a logical partition (there can only be 4 primary partitions) - do you
see the Extended one, in which the logical one is supposed to appear, or...
what?

-- Shimi
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