Really disappointing this omission from Ubuntu.

In dual operating systems with Windoze and Linux operating systems.

In all the other distro's I use the advantage of having the Windoze hard drive accessible on the desktop helps considerably those who migrate to Linux.

Normally you right click on the desktop create-new device- hard disk and find the Windoze disk. Not so with Ubuntu.

Anyway, of fixing this as Windoze users sometimes want to recover there old file from the blue screen of death?

Since, it is a KDE application could it be a modification in KDE 3.5,

Anyone, help on recovering the Windoze disk to the desktop?

I am not sure what the issue is here. In any distro, you can mount the Windows drive (or partition) and put a link on the desktop.

Which version of Ubuntu are you running?
I am running the versio with GNOME as the WM, and have no issues opening up the window$ drivesm they are just there on the desktop, and pre-mounted for my convienience.
Besides, as pixellany said, its not all that hard to mount a drive/device/disk.....

...and in kubuntu is as easy as with gnome

Normally, yes but not with Ubuntu. It does not show the device ie the windows partition.

Tell me what version of Ubuntu and KDE are you using?

No I have Ubuntu and loaded the kde 3.5 so i am then running the KDE 3.5 desktop on Ubuntu. I cannot see the disk partition that windows occupies on a laptop running the 32 bit version with Windoze 50% nor on another 64bit laptop again with the same split.

I only have one partition and appears to be all Ubuntu the Windoze partition is not visible.

Are you using KDE3.5 where a change may have been made?

Hi;

You can tell KDE which icons to display by:

- Right click on desktop, choose "Configure Desktop..."
- Go to the "Device Icons" tab
- Check "Show Device Icons"
- Choose what you want to see

jer

Well if it is not visible then it is not mounted

As far as mounting it there are a million ways.

The easiest might be to go to "system settings" in the main menu then "disk and filesystems" enter administrator mode and you will see the partition. It will not be mounted and will be disabled. Click on it and then select "new" to create a new mount point. Select the filesytem type (ntfs or vfat), then the mount point ( make it something like /windows). Then you can set whether you have to be root to mount it or if any user can mount it. There are also some advanced options but defaults are ok.

http://la.gg/upl/screenshot6_1.png

Then you will be able to see it and you can find it through "right click on desktop" "create new link to device"

You can also put the shortcut on the task bar. Just browse the filesystem with konqueror and then drag a folder you want linked onto the task bar. The you can move it to where you want and change the icon and stuff.

There is a Gnome parameter for desktop visibility. Regardless it should be visible with Nautilus Places to the left of the directory display. You may also access it as /media/hda{#} which you can bookmark to appear in Nautilus Places display.

I think i have worked out what has happened here.....
barrythai, when you installed Ubuntu, just after you set up your partitions, were you presented with a screen asking you to set your mount points?
I suspect that either you were and you just clicked through it, or you werent at all.
One way to fix this is to reinstall Ubuntu. This cant hurt (apart from the backing up and re-installing the updates etc, but if you can bear it...)
when you are asked about where you want to install Ubuntu, and to set up your partitions, select to manually edit partion table.
The installer should then fire up Gparted, and allow you to see - graphically - your disks and what partitions you have set up. here is where you do some dirty work. Edit the partitions to your likingm and commit. the next screen will be the screen that asks yo uabout mount points. Remember to set your "/" and swap partitions, and on this screen, also make sure you select your windows partition/s and select a point to mount them to.
Once the install has finished, when you load up Ubuntu, viola! Your windows partitions should be accesable(and pre-mounted) from the desktop.

The other way to do this and get this happening is to set up a few entries in /etc/fstab and go from there, but this can be tricky.......

Do not have system settings and no disk and file systems
Sorry

Guess you may be right with this it makes Ubuntu to recommend difficult. I like the system but there are to many differences from the other distros and not having root is a real pain.

Ys, I just installed Kubuntu and I searched the web. Looks like I have to type sudo everytime or use Synaptic or something. THis is stupid.

So, I had also the similar problem in Ubuntu Linux, and by installing it to hard disk drive is not the way to solve this cannot read files on windows drive (FAT32, Windows XP SP2) .
I use GNOME , not KDE. And it seems the only way is NOT to use Ubuntu and change it to Mandrake 2007, Knoppix etc?

No! No! No!
You may not be mounting the partition/s or do not have them set up correctly. As mentioned in my previous post in this thread:

This actually writes an entry to the /etc/fstab file which should allow you to mount it, either at boot time, OR by typing
Where x=your hard disc number (a=1 b=2 etc etc)
and y= partition number

I have used some other distros in the past, and still currently use Fedora Core, as a casual fling sort of thing. One of the changes I saw between Ubuntu, and the others was the whole sudo thing. At first, I couldnt get my head around it, and gave up, but then, Dapper was released, and I gave it another shot, and found that it was surprisingly easy to add "sudo" in front of most/all administrative commands. It also made me think twice about what it was, exactly that I was typing, as this would have been executed as root
There was a small discussion abou this going on over at http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=542221
with various peoples opinions about the sudo command. Although, only being 9 posts long, it still provides a bit of an insight into this particular feature of Ubuntu. There are probably more threads along this theme elsewhere - try searching if you are insterested.
Besides, if you select Synaptic package manager from the system menu (or Kubuntu equivelant) you should only need to type your regular user password in to access it. Easy! I find that this is no different to typing in the root password when trying to run the same program in Fedora Core 6. Seems like its just a matter of how you approach the problem, not the problem itself.

EDIT: Here is a post that directly talks about what we have been talking about here:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...79#post2699279
although this is for Fedora Core, it is still (semi) relevant to Ubuntu, and no that much different