hi dear all experts, i have a questions here, i have both redhat 9 shrike and winXP installed on my system, im asking about why did redhat 9 couldnt read my ntfs file systems? can redhat did that? reading ntfs file system if its did, how and what should i do to make redhat read ntfs, thanks for helping me!!!!!

Writing to NTFS is experimental so Redhat decided to not include NTFS support. Reading NTFS is not experimental but to support NTFS you can either re-compile your kernel or download an NTFS module (driver) to read your NTFS partitions.

When you are mounting NTFS, mount it as read only just in case something happens.

If you will like to write to your windows partitions, you have to change your NTFS to fat32 or get another hard drive and format it as fat32. The only way to convert NTFS to fat32 is Partition Magic. Windows utility that converts fat32 to NTFS can not.

I prefer to use fat32 for Windows even if I'm not installing LINUX. I can not fix anything if the partitions are NTFS. There is a program that can read NTFS in DOS. When I want to write to a file, I need to pay for the program that writes to NTFS.