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I have Xp and Suse 10 on my system, and I'm trying to access the windows drive (I: ) from Suse. When I: was NTFS i could access the files from Suse but not edit. After converting the drive to FAT32 I cant even see the files. The folder for I Drive is just empty. How can I make these files visible?
Writing to NTFS can not be done with out corrupting the whole partition. Just backup the files on the NTFS partitions and convert it to FAT32. Then you can edit.
NTFS is a whole different filesystem than FAT. Mounting an NTFS partition as FAT will come to an error and will not mount.
it deffinatly has the wrong settings though as you are trying to mount the fat32 drive 'ro' (read only).. looks like the options are still setup for ntfs drive.
hmmm i didnt notice that. when i go to the folder \windows\I there is a folder where my I drive files used to be, then i logged into windows and converted it to FAT32, and then the folder was empty
So there is a reference in /etc/fstab for your I: drive (which is actually /dev/sda7). Before editing /etc/fstab run (as root) from the commandline the following and see if it works:
Code:
mount -t vfat -o iocharset=utf8 /dev/sda7 /windows/I
If it works then edit /etc/fstab (keep a backup before editing) and change the last line which refers to /dev/sda7 like this:
You don't have to add it, just edit that last line that refers to /dev/sda7
To edit (backup first the original file) use from command line an editor like: pico, nano, joe whatever your distro has. E.g:
Code:
pico /etc/fstab
nano /etc/fstab
joe /etc/fstab
To save the changes with pico or nano press Ctrl-x and answer y when prompted For joe it's Ctrl-K-x (I'm not if it asks you to ovewrite).
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