few drives are detected but others not detected in fedora 10
hi all, I have two Hard disk in one I have installed winxp and fedora 10 (dual boot), and other i have documents music movies etc. I can access all the drives in windows but in fedora I can access my old hard disk and only a single partition of the new one that is only the Docs drive, rest of the drive music , movies etc I can't access , it is not displayed at all in desktop and not at file systems . Why this is happening? can any one describe it plz and give the direction to solve it.
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I'm guessing that the unseen partition has an NTFS filesystem. Fedora is one of the few linux distros that does not install NTFS support by defrault. They refuse to do so for legal reasons. However, it's easy to add NTFS support to fedora. If you want read/write support you need to install the ntfs-3g driver by doing:
$ su - <root password> # yum install ntfs-3g |
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this is what displayed in the last line of the process. Package 2:ntfs-3g-2009.4.4-1.fc10.i386 already installed and latest version Nothing to do [root@localhost power]# Now can anyone tell me what to do to enable the second drive, I am giving you one more news that after I bought and install the second drive I use the windows computer management in system-> administrator then I use dynamic file system (NTFS ofcourse) to format the total hard disk and to make the partition. Now plz I am helpless. Just give me the lite. |
ntfs-3g has problems with windows dynamic disks. You can google around on the topic but you will see a lot of people with problems when trying to access windows dynamic disks in linux. I'm not saying it's impossible but expect some issues. If you can go back to a basic ntfs disk setup, you won't have any problems.
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You cannot do that without losing your data. So backup to some volume and then convert. Better still move over to Linux only.
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