cant view windows hard drive while in fedora 7

lordicon · 07-09-2007, 11:50 PM

I am running fedora 7. I donot have dual boot. i have a 6 gig hd which holds fedora and i have a 20 gig hd that is holding everything i wanted to save from windows on it. ie divx movies, mp3's, text files, ect... All i am trying to do is pull those things off of that hard drive, format the hard drive, and use it for extra free space in fedora. I just cant seem to figure out how to get fedora to see the hard drive and let me access it.

anything would help

thanks,
Brandon

Nylex · 07-10-2007, 12:02 AM

You need to mount the partition. First things first: do you know what Linux is calling the disk? If not, run "fdisk -l" (that's a lowercase L) as root and post the output here.

lordicon · 07-10-2007, 12:05 AM

[lordicon@nani ~]$ su
Password:
[root@nani lordicon]# fdisk -l
bash: fdisk: command not found

Nylex · 07-10-2007, 12:17 AM

Either use "su -" to get root's environment or run "/sbin/fdisk -l"

lordicon · 07-10-2007, 12:22 AM

haha, my bad... here's what i got

[root@nani ~]# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 6448 MB, 6448619520 bytes
240 heads, 63 sectors/track, 833 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 = 7741440 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 14 105808+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 15 833 6191640 8e Linux LVM

Disk /dev/sdb: 20.4 GB, 20490559488 bytes
240 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2646 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 = 7741440 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 2645 19996168+ 7 HPFS/NTFS

Nylex · 07-10-2007, 12:28 AM

OK, so you need to mount /dev/sdb1. Fedora's kernel doesn't have NTFS support, so you'll need to install it. Look at this.

lordicon · 07-10-2007, 12:47 AM

worked like a charm.. thanks a lot!