Hey All
OpenSuSe 10.2/windows vista
Compact Pasario pc 3.0 mhz
1024 mhz DDR 2 memory
serial ata maxor 180g set as (primary on sata)
Primary IDE 120g ata western digital set as (Computer Select)
Secondary IDE Sony DVD cd/rw set as (Master Secondary)
40g ata western digital set as (slave Secondary)

problem my 10 year old daughter password protected her documents and the pc went down it had windows xp as a nt file system.
I tried installing as a slave on primary drive but another xp machine will not allow access to her files and she has forgotten her password.

So what I did was install to my machine which as above vista
at first because I have a serial hard drive I tried to set it up as a slave on the primary ide could not boot to SuSe and windows vista didn't see it.

tried setting both to (CS) of course neither was seen I now have the 40g set up as a slave on the seondary IDE as stated above.

vista see's it but denies access Open Suse see's it as (hdd) but I need to access it and need to now how to recover her data through Linux.

One more note: this 40g western digital had a partitian C: and D: drives all the info on D: is accessable but she didn't back up often enough.

her files are located in c:/documents and settings/her name/documents
need more info or better explain let me know.

/dev/hdd1 /windows/H ntfs users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0
/dev/hdd2 /windows/I vfat users,gid=users,umask=0002,utf8=true 0 0

if added to fstab its seen as hdd in Yast

That might work, but the problem I've found with moving drives between machines is that the user id numbers don't match. The easiest way to access the data is as root from Suse. You can stay in your normal user log-in, but open the K menu, and go System > File Manager > File Manager - Super User Mode. That will give you an instance of Konqueror with full root permissions, and you should be able to access everything on the old drive.

I suggest you make directories for the two partitions and then manually mount them rather than modify the fstab.

Even as su the drive showed up in hardware manager but because there was no mount point which was it seemed my problem even as root it said
"no mount point" not exact quote but close.

What I did and not through SuSe but Vista, was change the permissives
because there was no user with her name on my system and because it was added perhaps as a slave on the secondary IDE loop.
I was able to go to that folder and through properties take ownership of the files which I then transferred to a public folder which allowed my daughter to access all her files.

Thanks to all for reading and thinking