Cant see my files on new harddrive

smartergod · 05-03-2005, 06:08 PM

I recently rebuilt my computer to Mandrake Linux. Now I have a 400 gig harddrive that is on NTFS and I cant see the files. Linux is installed on another harddrive. Im running community 10.1 and I know the harddrive is mounted. Any suggestions? Please make it easy to understand... im new to linux.. =[

Matir · 05-03-2005, 06:16 PM

What exactly seems to be the problem? Are you sure it is mounted? Do you get any errors?

cs-cam · 05-03-2005, 06:42 PM

New harddrive... are there files on it? Type the following at a console and post the output

Code:

mount

smartergod · 05-04-2005, 09:48 AM

There are about 150 gigs of files on it..... its a NTFS partition... ill check tonight if
its mounted for sure.... but from what I remember it is... I just cant see the files on it...

i read from somewhere that linux is unable to write to a NTFS partition... is that true?

okmyx · 05-04-2005, 10:34 AM

Linux cannot write to an NTFS partition, but if can safely mount and read NTFS partitions

smartergod · 05-07-2005, 10:02 PM

Okay, I managed to get the folder structure visible from Linux. For some reason I cant see the files within the folders though. Any idea to this problem?

Matir · 05-08-2005, 10:26 AM

What mounting command line did you use?

smartergod · 05-11-2005, 12:56 PM

I did the mount through the gui I think.... either that or its always been mounted. The files showed up in the folders the other day.... so I took the opportunity and copied everything over to another harddrive that was formatted as a linux native.

Now all I need to do is reformat the NTFS to linux native. Only problem is when I try to unmount the drive, it says the harddisk is still in use even though I have no programs running or windows open displaying the files in the NTFS drive... anyone know whats going on with this?