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windows partition unaccessible through fedora 9

am facing problem accessing windows partitions through fedora 9.......however before having fedora i had opensus10..and ubuntu.......but no such problem existed..........however now when i try accessing windows partitions it gives the error "drives unmountable"..........plz help me immediately.........

log in as root. It does have problem mounting drives under normal user and GNOME Environment. once the drives get mounted u can log off and login as normal user.

There should not be a problem if u use KDE Environment instead.

sumitshining you may need to install ntfs-3G in your Fedora 9 system in order to mount the Windows Partitions. ntfs-3G is used to mount NTFS partitions.

Brandt you should have started a new thread rather than hijacking sumitshinings thread.
I will report your post and see if a Moderator will split it out of this thread, especially since it is an entirely different issue.

If you add the appropriate lines to youe /etc/fstab, the partitions will be automatically mounted when you boot. Here's my fstab with the NTFS mount lines highlighted in red. It's as simple as this.

Code:

$ cat /etc/fstab

/dev/Fedora/Base        /                      ext3    defaults        1 1

UUID=92ff1a1e-9e16-4828-953e-fbdfde536452 /boot ext3    defaults        1 2

tmpfs                  /dev/shm                tmpfs  defaults        0 0

devpts                  /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0

sysfs                  /sys                    sysfs  defaults        0 0

proc                    /proc                  proc    defaults        0 0

UUID=22b2553f-6199-4b82-b20c-6ad7c7b6688f swap  swap    defaults        0 0

/dev/Fedora/Swap        swap                    swap    defaults        0 0

# Other drives

UUID=17841f9e-fa3a-4850-aa52-0e6d0ba242e3 /Ubuntu ext3  defaults        0 2

UUID=342D7D7923AC4107  /Vista                  ntfs-3g rw,defaults    0 0

UUID=2C88743C8874071C  /Vista/Recovery        ntfs-3g rw,defaults    0 0

# Removable Drives

UUID=48A7-175E          /Kingston              vfat    defaults,noauto 0 0

/dev/USB_Fedora/Base    /USB_Fedora            ext3    defaults,noauto 0 0

UUID=85d4ec8b-3199-4819-a7c3-0f23d7d42aa6 /USB_Fedora/boot ext3 defaults,noauto 0 0

The last highlighted line is for mounting my FAT Kingston USB stick when I insert it. It shows how to specify a FAT partition, although the noauto is only necessary when you don't want to have it automatically mounted.

Oh, you'll note that I'm using the UUID= device specification format. If you want to do the same, you can find the UUIDs of the partitions on your drives by using a ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid command which shows the (current) link between a UUID and a partition or logical volume.

thnx all......all these soln worked.....am really grateful 2 all....tnx again.......