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Hi everyone
I recently installed Mandrake 9.1 on my computer. I have a second hard drive that I used to use to run Windows XP. I'm trying to get at my files on the second drive, so I tried mounting the partititions, blah, blah, blah. If I look in the folder that I mounted a partition to, nothing shows up. Everything is still on my second hard drive, but I just can't seem to access any of it. Any thoughts?
If there's nothing in the directory, it means the mount was unsuccessful. Could you please copy a command line session of mounting a Windows partition>
opening up Konsole and starting a root console session
using the # mkdir command to make a directory for the partition
and then mounting the windows partition with the cmd "# mount -t vfat /dev/hdb1 /mnt/windows/
Distribution: WinXP SP2 and SP3, W2K Server, Ubuntu
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Warning, I am a noob but...
That --> mount -t vfat /dev/hdb1 /mnt/windows/
looks good but are you sure the windows partition is known as HBD1 in Linux? I did that one night (LOL) and it took me a few minutes to see that problem. Once you get that partition mounted using the command line, then build an entry in /etc/fstab. If the above line works, then put this in your fstab:
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