After reading a post named "lots of newbie questions" in hope of finding the answer of my question (accessing mounted ntfs hd) I managed to mount the drive under root and switched back to my regular user account and tryed to go into the mounted drive, (/windows) but it has a lock on it, how do i access this from my regular user account?

you have to login as su. if you dont mind doing it in console just type su then your root pass and do your thing. Since you said theres a lock im going to assume your using kde. In which case there is a program called file browser (super user mode).

If you are working a lot with the NTFS partition, perhaps you want to make normal users able to mount the unit. Yo do so, you need to modify the /etc/fstab file.

Let's say that you mount with

Notice that I put a "-o ro" as it is not recommended to write in a NTFS partition. Then you have to add

to your /etc/fstab file.

I don't have ntfs partitions, so I don't know it you need additional options when you mount a NTFS unit. If so (as you say you were able to mount it) add them separated with commas to de "noauto,ro,user" part.

I hopw this helps you...

yes, and remember that generally there´s only read-support for ntfs.

Under Redhat linux 9 u cannot mount ntfs partition.
if u r using other linux flavour let me know along with kernel version.

also, you can use
$ mount /dev/hda7 /winthingy -o uid=nonroot_user_account

Posting a topic named "Newbie Question" is a horrible way to get attention to your problem. Pick a name that represents your question.