i had a win 2003 webserver box which had a C and D partition. OS died on my after SP1 update, so i installed mandrake 10.1 on the C partition of my PC. the D partition still exist, but is formated as NTFS. i still have data on this NTFS partition on the D drive, and would like to acces it.
can anyone please help?

question 2: is it possible to convert this D partition to FAT32?

thanks in advance

Currently Linux can only read ntfs file systems so you can acces that partiton but you can only write or delete files on it under Windows. You can use the mount command for that (type "man mount" without quotes to get help). Or you have to modify the /etc/fstab file to make the same effect automatically at every boot (man fstab).
There's one unofficial solution though: captive ntfs. It uses win's ntfs.dll, but it is known slow (especially with large files) and memory consuming.
Linux refers winchesters and partitions as how they attached (what cable they use to connect) to the mother board so the C and D partition name is useless under Linux.
answer2 : the only solution I know for that is to format partiton D to fat 32 so every data will be lost on that partition if you don' do a backup.

thanks very much