the LINUX kernel has support for a lot of drivers
it may happen that a suport for a hardware is not compiled in to ur knrel then u can either compile ur kernel for that support or get some xternal driver to support that
for seeing ur windows drives u need to mount them
a small mounting tuturial i had wrtten some time back
get that from here
http://govinda.no-ip.com/masand/myhelpages.html
regards
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