How to get files from other partition
 

Hi, im really new at this and i hope that somebody can help me. I've compiled my hard drive with 2 operating systems, windows and linux. I did this by partitioning my drive. All my music files are in the windows partition and i want to transfer those music files into my Linux partition. When i try opening the windows partition in Linux i get a message saying that i dont have the permissions to display the contents of it. How can i get the permission and finally be able to transfer files?

Honestly (and this probably isn't what you want to hear or the best way to do this but...) I become root (so su or sudo bash depending on your distro) and copy the files via the command line. I don't use the graphical file managers/browsers.

So what I would do is:

cp /from/windows/partition/example.mp3 /to/linux/partition/example.mp3

But I also don't know how you windows partition is mounted or what kind of file system it is. i.e. NTFS or FAT. That info would be useful.
Thanks.

If you wanted to copy large amounts of data from, say, C:\My Music (and your C drive was mounted on /mnt/windows) you can use the -R option to cp to copy recursively. Something likewill copy the entire My Music directory from your windows drive to your Linux home directory. After that, you may want to rename it to something more linux-y (i.e. no uppercase or spaces - mv ~/My\ Music ~/music), and you should probably change the owner of the files from root to your everyday user to avoid permissions problems:Et voila!