browsing windows partition through linux
 

When i try to look through my windows fat32 partition, all i can see is "C\"., and it says there is nothing any farther in the drive. I need to be able to see and read the contents off of this drive, but it seems i am not able to, any suggestions?

where are you looking

you need to mount the windows partition and then you should be able to look at it

use the manual mount command to mount your windows partition on the linux filesystem. Create a directory to mount, preferably under /mnt/. Issue the command:

mount -t *filesystem type of windows /dev/*device of windows partition /mnt/*your created directory

For testing purpose,

su
mkdir /mnt/tmp
mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/tmp
ls /mnt/tmp

If it works, you automate the process,

su
vi /etc/fstab
add a line like below
/dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat noauto,user,exec,rw,nosuid,umask=007 0 0
mount /mnt/windows

Does anyone know how to view a winxp ntfs partition from linux? as this would be a great help to me.

yes, you need support for ntfs built into the kernel

try this

modprobe ntfs


if you don't have the module and the kernel gives an error " -- does not support ntfs" when you try to mount an ntfs partition, then you will need to rebuild the kernel to add ntfs support or build it as a module.

where do i put in the probe ntfs ?
Iv trid it in the consol and it said sumthing about it not beng a comand. Could you please explain in more detail as i also need to no and i am KING of all Newbies, i started with linux today !
Bout 2 hours ago
cheerz

yes in a console is fine

you need to be user root

and the command is