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Your F: drive is /dev/hda1 or hda2 or hda3 so on. To see the list, you can do "ls /dev/hda*"
Alternatively, you can use a very powerful tool: "fdisk -l /dev/hda". Warning: it could be intimidating.
NOTE: This is assuming you have a normal harddisk with many many partitions and not many different harddisks, in which case it will be /dev/hdb. In case of trouble, see through fdisk.
Thanks for the reply and it worked for me successfully. Now if i have 2 different machines. One is having windows xp and the other machine is having linux. I want to mount the windows partition of machine1 on linux machine say machine2.
In the solution suggested by you, it is assumed that the windows partition as well as linux partitions are on the same machine. But how I can achieve the same if i am having 2 different machines ?
I don't know if it is possible to "mount" it, because you will have to have some sort of network connection. It is no more a problem of doing something with _your_ hardware. It is now a problem of accessing some other hardware. For that, have a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_file_system.
For example, you can set up samba server, and access another computer as a share (akin to what we have in Windows).
There are many possibilities depending on your operating system.
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