Red Hat 8.0 and NTFS Hard Drive Not Showing up

Li-Wen · 03-15-2003, 08:07 PM

G'day

I have a problem with my Red Hat 8.0 Box - My windows box recently died so I took its hard drive and installed it into my linux box so I could access all my MP3's etc.. however when I ran fdisk -l, the ntfs hard drive did not show up at all. (ie I only saw entries for hda). Can't mount a drive if Red Hat doesnt think it exists! Both hard drives are recognised by the BIOS. I'm thinking maybe its not working because the ntfs hard drive was not present when I installed linux....

Hardware is:
hda (Red Hat 8.0) - Western Digital Caviar 30Gb (WD300BB)
hdc (Windows XP NTFS) - Western Digital Caviar 40Gb (WD400BB)
- Partitions, 10Gb, ~30Gb
Diamond Data 52x CDROM slaved to hdc
Motherboard is Intel D815EEA2LU (i815)
RedHat Kernel 2.4.18-14

tornado · 03-15-2003, 08:38 PM

Hi , Linux Red Hat Doesnt support NTFS Partions for mounting

Li-Wen · 03-15-2003, 09:08 PM

1) Red Hat Linux 8.0 does support mounting NTFS partitions, just that it is not enabled by default. I have enabled support for NTFS with my install of Red Hat.

http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/info/redhat.html

2) Even if it does not support the filesystem, shouldn't it still at least recognise the fact that there is a hard drive there when you perform fdisk -l ? Please correct me if I wrong

tornado · 03-15-2003, 09:15 PM

thanks li-wen .