Accessing different HD's on a dual-boot system

kkj · 04-09-2004, 08:53 PM

Ok, heres the poop-scopp :

i have win2k and Fedora Core, dual-booted. Is there a way I can access my other hd's from fedora or windows?
I have two HD's and I want to view my hd that has the windows partition on it. Or I want to view the other HD with the Fedora files on it...
How do i do it?

strikeforce · 04-09-2004, 08:59 PM

Ok I do know how to do it through linux but I've never tried through windows so I cant tell you that bit.

You need to know the partitions but for example lets say its /hda1

#creat a folder called /hda1
mkdir /hda1/

mount /dev/hda1 /hda1
# that mounts the windows partition in the folder /hda1 then you will be able to access it.

From the windows point of view I have no idea.

kkj · 04-09-2004, 10:30 PM

Oh ok, thanks a lot, I appreciate it

davec · 04-10-2004, 12:33 AM

heres a handy little thing for accessing linux partitions in windows, my advice is to be careful with it though!!!http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/explore2fs.htm
Not near as good as strikeforce's method of mountin the filesystem in linux though, be careful!!!

strikeforce · 04-10-2004, 02:14 AM

Yeah my assumption was and correct me if I'm wrong is that with xp you can't actually view linux partitions but earlier versions you could. I mean like if its on the same harddrive or even on separate harddrives. IF you have separate computers you can easily but thats a separate issue.

davec · 04-11-2004, 12:55 PM

yeah the difference in xp is that it has NTFS file system on it's partition, whereas win2k uses fat32(vfat). vfat can be viewed under most linux distros i think, but not NTFS...