Hello to all,

I've been a Linux user for a long time but technically I don't always get even the easier things. I have SuSE 9.1 running. I have recently re-installed this & allowed SuSE to make the settings, although I had already created the drives available. I can no longer see my NTFS drive with Windows XP running. Any ideas? Prior to re-install I could see this drive.

Is there an entry for it in your /etc/fstab ? If it's not then you should add it.

Also, make sure your NTFS kernel modules are installed.

Welcome to LQ. I think it might depend on what you mean when you say you "allowed SuSE to make the settings", but if you allowed SuSE to repartition your drive, it's possible that its decisions were not necessarily what you intended. More specifically, it appears that there may be a chance that the NTFS partition was overwritten (although hopefully not)

The best thing to do would be to start SuSE, then open a terminal session (ie, the command line). As root, run the following command "fdisk -l" (no quotes, and that's a lowercase "L") The fdisk -l command will list some basic information about your drive and how it is partitioned. Post those results back here. Hopefully, the output will display an NTFS partition (which most likely will be /dev/hda1) and if so, as spooon already indicated getting it to mount automatically can be done by adding it to the /etc/fstab file. That being said, I would caution against having an NTFS partition be mounted automatically, due to the fact that you probably don't want to risk accidentally editing or deleting any of the files on it. Good luck with it -- J.W.

Two things:

this is the module you need. Second go to Yast2 > System > Sysconfig Setup and look there, there is a menu entry where you can choose whether to use this module or not.

After this use Yast's facility to mount and configure the NTFS drive.

Muchly appreciated - will attempt both options & respond. Thankyou for the quick reply.