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Dear All,
i'm newbie on linux,just now i've solved out my lost windows grub setting helped by brother johnfine, again thanks brother..
now i mount the ntfs to /dev/hda2 /media/winxp, after "nano" the /etc/fstab. it's run well, but i didn't see my documents folder and others which is placed on "c:\" in windows version..
Again i'd like to inform you, that i'm not so good in english, then please forgive any unwise and maybe not polite words.
please see below partition:
df -l
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
17870152 4402712 12545024 26% /
/dev/hda6 101086 24550 71317 26% /boot
tmpfs 512716 0 512716 0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda2 8393960 1842956 6551004 22% /media/winxp
Looks like you have the "recovery" partition mounted !!
Many OEM's will create a separate partition for "recovery" files, in order to restore your computer to its original software/OS. I am assuming this is what ukiuki is referring to.
I would suggest you use the "-h" option with df, which will show you human readable (MB, GB etc) filesystem sizes.
Unless I am mistaken, (its been a long time since ive done anything with Windows), i would imagine that the normal C:\ windows partition, would be /dev/hda1, but checking "fdisk -l" should confirm this.
Well there are three MS partitions there. Chances are they have filesystems on them.
Try mounting them and looking through them for the "Documents and settings" or "Users" directories.
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