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I just installed Mandrake 9.1 on a machine that was already running WinXP. I used the recommended option to install into the Windows' partition's free space. The problem is that now Windows won't boot when I select it from the Boot Loader. It just gets stuck on the "Loading windows" screen.
The fact that I cannot load Windows is not so much a problem as is the fact that I NEED access to the files in my Windows partition. How do I go about getting at these? I read some information about how mounting may be what I need... so how do I do that?
If you can boot linux, then your windows partition should be already mounted in under /mnt/win_c or something like that - just look in the /mnt directory. You should be able to read the files.
I just installed Mandrake 9.1 on a machine that was already running WinXP. I used the recommended option to install into the Windows' partition's free space
Taking this at face value - when people talk about installing in free space they're referring to installing into unpartitioned free space - not free space thats left over inside a current Windows partition.
Can you currently boot into Linux? Did you use LILO? - Can you post your lilo.conf file?
(first make a mount point)
(as root of course)
mkdir /mnt/windows
(then mount it)
mount -t ntfs /dev/hdXY /mnt/windows[/B]
Yeah, it's NTFS. A couple things:
- How do I make a mount point?
- /mnt/windows already exists.
- When I try the mount command, it says that only the root can do that, although I'm assuming that this has something to do with making a mount point "as root".
in a terminal window, first become root using the su command. you will be asked for the root password. then do
mount /mnt/windows
this should mount the windows partition.
Originally posted by quatsch BTW, mandrake by default mounts all windows partitions it finds so it shouldn't be necessary to mount it. What is the output of the command df?
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda5 5.4G 1.6G 3.6G 31% /
/dev/hda9 3.4G 148M 3.3G 5% /home
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