Ok, i think ill tell the long story...
I Installed Windows XP. Then i downloaded ALOT of .mp3 files, and other nessecary files for me. after a while, I needed to install fedora. And the Windows had 2 partitions on 1 disk. partition A had windows files and B had my mp3 files, so i installed Linux over Windows. I only formated the A partition and left the B as NTFS.
Now i have Fedora 5 with 1/2 of my max diskspace, and i want my B partition back.
Is there any way, i could read B with fedora core 5? ...no it didnt install NTFS automaticly, cause it has no boot...nothing is on it...so i think that linux didnt want to search for ir...

you'll find instructions on installing ntfs support.


cheers,

You need to do two things. 1. Create a mount point in your file system. 2. Add a line to yoru /etrc/fstab file so the system will auto mount the file system at boot time.

To make the mount point, open a command prompt, and log in as root user. Pick the point in the file system you want to add the files to. You can use konqueror to browse your file system. I mount most new stuff in the /mnt directory. If you go that way, do a cd to /mnt. now to make the mount do a mkdir nameofthenewdir Call it what ever you like, such as win_ntfs, just a suggestion, the name doesn't matter, just something you will understand.

Make a backup of your fstab first; cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab_backup

Now edit your /etc/fstab file. Add a line like this on:

/dev/hda5 /mnt/win_ntfs ntfs user,ro,auto 0 0

Save the file, this must be done as root user. You can either issue a mount command, see the man page for syntax; or just restart the system. If you have got it right, the file system will be mounted at /mnt/win_ntfs.

Thigs to check, the /dev/hda5, that is a guess on my part, from what you posted. The first partition will be hda1, the second part on the first drive will be hda5, the third will be hda6...

If in dought, on a konsole do a 'df' command, that will list the mounted file systems, and show usage. You may have a swap partition. That will change the numbering. If you get the numbering wrong, the file system won't mount.

Hope this helps.