I have a dual boot system - slack 9.1 and winxp pro

Everything works fine, but I can't access files on my windows partition.

When I had mandrake 10, I could easily read files on windos partition, but now with slackware, I cant. Also, slack wont read files on my cd's.

If anyone knows how to fix this, please let me know.

Well, is your windows partition listed in your /etc/fstab???
if so, what permissions does it have??

I do believe that you are wrong ringwraith, I think that all xp has to be on an ntfs partition. That was for fat32. I think it would work, just change the vfat to 'ntfs' and change the rw to 'ro'

Recall that NTFS write is very experimental and dangerous. YOU will most likely lose files and bugger things up, do not write to an ntfs hdd. Changing the rw to ro will make you have read-only permissions which is the most advisable thing to have in Linux for NTFS.

The fstab is located in the /etc/ folder and to edit you can either login as root at the beginning, open the fstab with something like gedit or vim or something along the likes of that and add the line:

/dev/hda1 /mnt/windows ntfs uid=500,gid=500,umask=000,exec,dev,suid,ro 1 0

That line should work.

Recall, you must create a folder called /mnt/windows for this to work, to do this when logged in as user, go to the terminal type 'su' then the root password. Then do mkdir /mnt/windows. then type exit and you are done

To mount it you simply put 'mount /dev/hda1' into the terminal.

The hda1 thing depends on what harddrive it is on though, I think windows has to be the first one so I think hda1 is fine.

silvercastle,

Do you not see the partition at all?

Or do you see the partition but just cannot access the files?

Is your XP partition's filesystem fat32 or NTFS?

Make sure that you have the appropriate file system support enabled and that you are specifying the correct filesystem when mounting the partition and in the fstab file.

Also note that NTFS support is still read-only, so you should be able to access and read them, but won't be able to edit or write to them on that partition.

...excellent....thanx heaps Pauli...I can read files on my winxp partition now.

Thanx for your help

I have a similar problem when accessing files on my Windows XP box from my Slackware box using LISa. I can browse to the Windows files but when I try to open or copy them, the progress bar just stops.

Kent

linux supports read only access to ntfs partitions. If you would like to write or copy to your winxp partitions, you'll have to covert the winxp partitions to FAT32.

No, I'm trying to open the files that are on my WinXP computer from Slackware. I'm not trying to write to WinXP.

Kent