when i go to file:/mnt/windows there is nothing in the folder any more...
i had to take the windows hard drive out and when i put it back in i could not see any thing in the folder...
any ideas on how to get it working again?

2 40 gig western dig. hard drives
windows xp pro
mandrake linux 10 official

Have you tried to manually mount the Windows partition to the mountpoint? Just enter the standard mount command as root
where "x" is the partition letter and "y" is the partition number that you are interested in attaching to /mnt/windows. That ought to do it. -- J.W.

it did not work, it said device not found and im not exactly sure what u mean with the x and y thing. would i change it to c and 0 or something?

The hard drive will have a letter assigned to it depending on where it is installed. For reference:

/dev/hda = primary master
/dev/hdb = primary slave
/dev/hdc = secondary master
/dev/hdd = secondary slave

Each drive will also be divided into one or more partitions. How you partition your drive is up to you, so I can't tell you what number to use, but to give you a couple of examples of the command I mentioned previously, let's look at the following:

1. Mount the second partition of the primary master
mount /dev/hda2 /mnt/windows

2. Mount the first partition of the secondary slave
mount /dev/hdd1 /mnt/windows

3. Mount the fourth partition of the primary slave
mount /dev/hdb4 /mnt/windows

Hopefully that makes it clearer. Basically, you just need to determine which hard drive Windows lives on, and which partition of that drive Windows resides in. If you had installed Windows first, it's a very good bet that your Windows partition will be /dev/hda1

Good luck with it -- J.W.

thanks, that worked

Cool - congrats on solving the problem and thanks for posting back. -- J.W.

new prob...
i can only veiw the files if im root and i tryed to change the permission and said it was a read only file system
also...is there a way to auto mount the partition?

lol, nm...i got it
i had to add a line in fstab

i use this fstab line:

/dev/hdb1 /mnt/window$ vfat uid=deepblue,gid=users,rw 0 0

then i can mount it as myself and get 100% permissions.