I am running Mandrake 8.2 and I cant see my windows drive. Is there away that I can see my drive so I can get info off it, or do I have to keep putting all the info on to CDRW and reading it that way?

Type and execute these commands in your console:

mkdir /mnt/C:

mount -t vfat /dev/hda /mnt/C:

How is the windows drive formated? fat32, NTFS? And how is your drive setup ie: is windows is the first partition on the drive?

/dev/hda = IDE1 master
/dev/hdb = IDE1 slave
/dev/hdc = IDE2 master
/dev/hdd = IDE2 slave

1st primary partition on IDE1 master would be /dev/hda1 second would be hda2 and so forth up to hda4.
Logical partitions will start at /dev/hda5 on and go up.

So if your windows partition is the first fat32 partition on your Master drive on IDE controller 1 the command would be(As root):

mkdir /mnt/C ,or whatever you want
mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/C

would same thing apply to rh?

Yes. The mount command, and all associated things that go with it (umount, fstab, etc) are common between all Linux distros.