i recentlcy' set up suse on a dual boot with windows but i got an old hard drive with some files i want off it, i cant work out how to get it to show on my linix sytem any one got any ideas

How is this old hard drive connected?

Assuming that the drive is installed in the computer, SUSE may see it automatically. Look in /mnt or /media to see if a mount point has been set up.

"fdisk -l" to see how the computer is seeing the harddrives and partitions.

it shows this but wont in my copmyter

Disk /dev/hda: 203.9 GB, 203928109056 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24792 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 262 2104483+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda2 * 263 2873 20972857+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 2874 24792 176064367+ 83 Linux

Disk /dev/sda: 251.0 GB, 251000193024 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30515 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 6454 51841723+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 6455 30515 193269982+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 6455 6716 2104483+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6 6717 9327 20972826 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 9328 30515 170192578+ 83 Linux
linux-jb:/home/jb #

OK--I assume that the "old disk" is hda (since sda has the Windows partition)

Did you check to see if SUSE automatically generated a mount point?

To mount it from scratch:
cd /mnt
mkdir part1
mount /dev/hda1 part1
cd part1
ls

similar procedure for the other partition

To have it mount automatically, add an entry to /etc/fstab See "man fstab" for details

ill give it a try now, i only need to get the the old home partition so ill see what happens thanx ill get back to you with results

jb@linux-jb:~> su
Password:
linux-jb:/home/jb # cd/mount
bash: cd/mount: No such file or directory
linux-jb:/home/jb # cd /mount
bash: cd: /mount: No such file or directory
linux-jb:/home/jb # cd /mnt
linux-jb:/mnt # mkdir part1
linux-jb:/mnt # mount /dev/hda3 part1
linux-jb:/mnt # cd part1
linux-jb:/mnt/part1 # is
bash: is: command not found
linux-jb:/mnt/part1 # ls
junglistno1 lost+found
linux-jb:/mnt/part1 #

i done this but nothing happened in my computer

What do you mean "nothing happened"?

Your listing shows that you successfully mounted the partition hda1, got into it with cd, and did ls. I shows that you have one file or folder named "lost+found". Try ls -al to see EVERYTHING--including hidden files an verbose information.

Is it possible that what you are looking for is on hda2?

WHOA!!!!--i just noticed that hda1 is swap. You need to look on hda2 and hda3. sorry I missed this earlier.....