I have a dual boot Windows XP box and I've installed SuSE Linux 8.1 on a two hard drive machine. I want to access files on both drives in both OS's.

Linux has an icon on the desktop to the /windows/C drive and I can access via /dev/windows. I can not write to files to anywhere (even the shared directory). How to fix this?

In windows xp, I don't even see the swap partition. How to locate it?

cheers
Scott

Hi Scott,

forget about the swap partition, it's a special partition Linux uses to enhance its physical memory and it would do no good to place any files there. It's just perfect that you cannot access it, as you would only mess it up if you'd do anything manually there.

Did you try to write on the windows partition being logged in as root? Should work and if it does you just have to change the rights of your normal login and give yourself write access as well. Perhaps you have to edit the fstab-file manually therefore

Stefan

Is your XP NTFS? If so, you can't write to it. You can only read it.

However, like a lot of us, we create a FAT32 partition for file sharing between OSes.

I don't want to speak too soon, But If I remember correctly, and I'm not sure If I do, 'cuz I've got waaaay too many boxes to keep trak of... anyway, I believe I have a box or two with NTFS Tables on it. And there have been times where I needed to write to the M$ drive from Linux.

Ofcourse, once I got all of the network up, I realized that if something was important enough to write to another OS drive then I either:
A) Needed to boot into that OS
or
B) Find a way to do it from any OS
or
C) Write it to my file server... I mean that's what it's for.

Anyway, I do recall writing to NTFS a few times. It was a tricky bit to accomplish, and I'm sorry I can't offer advise as to how to do this now... I know why bother right? Simply to state that I think there is a way... look harder. I'll dig thru my notes.

L8rz