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I was running a windows XP system before switching to linux, only about an hour ago. I have two hard drives. My OS was on one HD while music and other important files were on the second one. Now that I have installed mandrakelinux on my first HD, I cannot access my second HD. It is either not listed or I am told I do not have access to it.
If you have ran the mount /dev/hdb command as root and didn't get any errors than you mounted your second hard drive no problem.
Now as for your main question as to where to find it, when you use the mount command, unless you tell it otherwise, it will put the mounted drive into the /mnt directory. Open up a terminal (command prompt) and type in
Code:
ls /mnt
you should see a few directories. floppy, cdrom, and hopefully one other. This other folder (hdb perhaps, I'm not sure what Mandrake calls it by default), is where your second hard drive should have it's contents.
Hope that helps and as always if it doesn't work feel free to post back and we'll see what else we can do.
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/dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
/dev/hda6 /home ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec 0 0
/dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom2 auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850,noauto,exec 0 0
/dev/hdb1 /mnt/win_c2 ntfs nls=iso8859-1,ro 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0
none /mnt/hd supermount dev=/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part1,fs=ext2:vfat,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,kudzu,codepage=850 0 0
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And by locked I mean I went to it through konqueror, the folder icon had a lock on it, I tried opening it and it said that Access is denied, and that I do not have the permissions to access it.
I am able to access it through the konsole, but I am now currently wondering how I would go to my 30gb music folder and choose songs to play in whatever media player i go through the struggle of installing soon ...
I can't write to it directly, and I opened it in Kwrite, and it says I can't save it ...
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The document could not be saved, as it was not possible to write to file:/etc/fstab.
Check that you have write access to this file or that enough disc space is available.
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For some reason, even when I go into root through the konsole, I still cannot gain access to the folders. And when I enter /etc/fstab, i'm told "bash: /etc/fstab : permission denied:
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