fangbite Posted April 10, 2004 Report Share Posted April 10, 2004 I've been working with Mandrake Linux for several weeks now and am getting successes in most places but for some reason I can't get Mandrake to read a Windows partition on my computer. I use Mandrake 10 and have one 80 gig drive split between windows and linux. I want to be able to access several files on the windows drives (images, mp3s, etc) but can't. I tried to put them onto a cd-rw but for some reason mandrake didn't recognize it either. Any suggestions? Also i hope i'm in the right topic for this problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted April 10, 2004 Report Share Posted April 10, 2004 (edited) not the right forum, but not problem ;) i'll scoot you on over... but first! what kind of windows filesystem are you using? fat32 or ntfs? check out this FAQ we have, it should be useful: http://www.mandrakeusers.org/index.php?showtopic=4960 (oh yes, and since it hasn't been said, welcome to the board ) Edited April 10, 2004 by tyme Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cannonfodder Posted April 10, 2004 Report Share Posted April 10, 2004 You can also do searches on the following keywords fstab dev vfat ntfs Basically, the file /etc/fstab contains entries for each partition linux will mount. Each entry describes the partition file type, where to mount, and who can access it. You can also run diskdrake and look at your partition setup. Just be careful not to save any changes. Diskdrake will list a partition as hda1 for example. If you look in /etc/fstab, you should find an entry for /dev/hda1. If not, then that is your problem. You can also check out the mount command.. do some reading on mount and fstab, its worth your time.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fangbite Posted April 12, 2004 Author Report Share Posted April 12, 2004 Ok the windows partitian is in NTFS format and runs 2000(don't know if this part matters) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fangbite Posted April 13, 2004 Author Report Share Posted April 13, 2004 found out how to do it. I went to diskdrake in the konsole and found out what my windows partitian was called. Then i just went in through folders etc to get there as if it was just a standard linux partitian. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarissi Posted April 14, 2004 Report Share Posted April 14, 2004 Yes, it would be listed in /mnt where Mandrake sticks all Windows partitions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Padma Posted April 14, 2004 Report Share Posted April 14, 2004 Yeah, it's not inutuitively obvious to a Windows user. ;) Once you understand how *nix handles access to partitions, etc., it's not too hard to figure out. Glad you found your way there. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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