accessing winxp hd in terminal

macgregor98 · 03-18-2007, 05:24 PM

I am tryign to access my windows xp hd (separate hard drive) and i am having trouble remembering the command to access the drive. can anyone give me a link with the command?

thx in advance

p1z5p4mm3 · 03-18-2007, 08:25 PM

It should be in /media/

so you'll want "cd /media/hd<driveletter><partitionnumber>".
If the drive isn't mounted by default, you'll have to run "mount /dev/hd<driveletter><partitionnumber>", and if it isnt in /etc/fstab, then you'll have to run "mkdir /media/hd<driveletter><partitionnumber>" and then "mount /dev/hd<driveletter><partitionnumber> /media/hd<driveletter><partitionnumber> -t ntfs" (assuming it's an ntfs drive)

macgregor98 · 03-21-2007, 12:40 AM

when i boot into linux its mounted by default. I need to send some files to my ntfs partition. i would preferr to not have to burn them if i can at all help it

ckota · 03-28-2007, 11:39 AM

Hi, you can not write into NTFS partition unless you have nfts-3g installed. Follow this tutorial
http://www.debianadmin.com/mount-you...in-ubuntu.html

DJNolz83 · 03-28-2007, 10:19 PM

Just a word of caution, though.
No matter what tool you use to write to an NTFS partition, it is still very, very risky to do this.
The only safe thing you can do with a partition like this is to read it.

By the way, why are you using the command line to do this when you could do this graphically, via nautilus/konquerer?
Why make life hard for yourself when you don't have to?!