Open your console and type these two lines independant of each other:

mkdir /mnt/windows
mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows

Your Fat32 partition will be under /mnt/windows.

but i think i have to exchange the vaft in the second line with ntfd since the hard is ntfs not fat32
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Correct, I think he missed that it's ntfs. That should mount your partition though, UNLESS you don't have support for NTFS in your kernel. If that mount command doesn't work and says you don't have ntfs support or something to the effect of filesystem not supported (it should be), look into either 1) building it into your kernel and recompiling, or 2) most assuredly there is just a module you'll have to load. As per the fstab, it IS a matter of choice, to each their own!

cos i have had done what u said and it said the drive is mount from /dev/hda1 to /mnt/win_c and it done
and i reboot but nothing happened
what shall i do next
burn the computer or myself

When you mount the drive and it says it is mounted, that's all. You don't need to reboot. Just go into /mnt/win_c and do whatever you need to do. Adding the line to your fstab is what will mount it every boot.

dont burn anything yet . From what you have said, I assume you want your winxp partition ( c: ) mounted everytime you start linux. Just copy the following line and paste it into /ect/fstab

• /dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c ntfs auto,user 0 0

Just make sure that there is not another line with /dev/hda1 in fstab. It will work

i was able to mount the c now and i can see it when logged as root but as a normal user
it says u don't have permession to acces /mnt/win_c
what shall i do now

see my last post? do you have this very same line in your fstab file? where 'user' is specified, enables the group 'users' to mount the filesystem.

...... but

it didn't work
someone told me it is all about the secuirty setup for hard disk c cos it is ntfs on windows

but from where can i confg. it on winds
can anyoone help me

Linux does not care about windows security It should mount and see the files OK.

type 'man fstab' and read that. Man pages can be confusing but just work through it bit by bit. You'll be OK.

Also, check fdisk in windows. you can list all the partitions there. WindowsXP does not have to be on the first partition of the first disk (/dev/hda1) and could be on the extended partition listed second or third (/dev/hda5 or hda6) FDISK will tell you all you need to know.
Also, Check the boot.ini file on the first primary partition of the first disk. (use XP to search for it) this will tell you where your XP installation is... eg...

• multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows" /fastdetect

this shows that the install is on the first disk (disk0) of the second controller (rdisk1) on the 3rd partirion (partition2). In this setup though the first disk on the second controller is actually a DVD drive and the harddisk has the following partition table[list=1][*]primary partition[*]freespace[*]winxp installation (1st partition in extended space)[/list=1]
... so... to mount this in linux as root one would type...

• mount -t ntfs /dev/hdd5 /windows/E

This all applies to an IDE system I'm not sure about SCSI. You can email me if your linux box is connected to the internet and want me to ssh into your box it to see if I can get it to work for you...