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Does anyone know how to mount a windows hard drive in Linux. I am using Red Hat 7.0 with Gnome if that helps. I would just like to be able to use my mp3z, movies, etc that are on my windows drive...
Where is the partition you want to mount. /dev/hda1? If so you need to edit the file /etc/fstab. This is where all the partitions are mounted when Linux boots.
The file sometimes has different entries for different systems, so you can use this command at a terminal to mount windows c:
# mount /dev/hda1 /windows -t vfat
You need to have a folder called /windows which is available and the filesystem on the c: needs to be fat32. to unmount it:
# umount /dev/hda1 /windows -t vfat
Altough you may not need to enter the whole line all the time:
I'm having troubles mounting my windows drives and haven't seen a scenario like mine posted:
I have three drives. 1 ide for linux only. 2ide in RAID0 for windows only....when i boot, linux boots, if I press esc at the right time during bios, i get boot menu and can select the proper device to boot windows.
windows and linux are not on the same drive.....can i mount my windows drive from linux? I would like to to transfer files between OS's with out using a second computer to temporarliy store files while I reboot my other box.
It's not necessarily a good idea to try to write to your Windows drive; some systems seem to encounter severe difficulties with this. So perhaps that why read-only is automatically on. However, are you trying to write as a user, or as root? If as a user, you can add yourself to the disks group.
Originally posted by proopnarine It's not necessarily a good idea to try to write to your Windows drive; some systems seem to encounter severe difficulties with this. So perhaps that why read-only is automatically on. However, are you trying to write as a user, or as root? If as a user, you can add yourself to the disks group.
Roop
I'm only trying to access windows files from linux, i don't intend to write to windows.
I've been trying in root user, but finally figured out my problem.
I need to use /dev/hdg1............my windows drives are on the 3rd adn 4th ide port as a raid0 config. I found the device name by looking in partitioning information in WEBMIN.
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