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Old 05-03-2010
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Access windows partition in mandriva

Hello,
On my desktop I have two HDD (one with windows and one with linux). I want to access my windows drive is "hda" but it says I have no rights. Does someone could tell me how to access the windows partition? Any help on this will be appreciated. I am facing a lot of problems because of this, so I am expecting a help for you. Thanks in advance.
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Re: Access windows partition in mandriva

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On my desktop I have two HDD (one with windows and one with linux). I want to access my windows drive is "hda" but it says I have no rights.
I have few question for you
Code:
1 / How are you doing to get in?
2 / tape in a shell:
You can try the folloing command as a root user in the terminal
Code:
$ Cat / etc / fstab
Hope the command will help you or at-least provide you some clue on this.
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Re: Access windows partition in mandriva

Hello,
Your windows drive is not listed in your fstab. How are you doing to get in?
If / mnt / windows is not tape as root:
Code:
root @ localhost # mkdir / mnt / windows
to create it. Then try something like:
Code:
root @ localhost # mount-t ntfs / dev/hda1 / mnt / windows
root @ localhost # ls / mnt / windows /
And tell us if that list out the files in your C drive. Try this options and then give us the output what you get.
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Re: Access windows partition in mandriva

Hello,
I agree with the above post, the commands are going to help you. I would like to add few words to the above post. If they work, you can add a line to your fstab so that it all happens automatically and with the right options (which is not the case with you , that is good). Finally, I do not understand what you mean by "get the windows disk in graphical mode." What exactly are you trying to do in your windows partition?
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Re: Access windows partition in mandriva

Hello,
I think you should not go in / dev/hda1. You should mount the partition and go into the mount directory. You say that your windows partition is hda1. Suppose you have the directory / mnt / windows, you raise your score on it and then to access it, must go in / mnt / windows. Alternatively you can try with the mandriva live cd, see if it shows you windows partition on the live cd, if it is then every thing is right with the mandriva linux operating system.
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Re: Access windows partition in mandriva

Hello,
You can log you in as root in a console and run a program from the console, which will be executed with root privileges, time to edit a file for example. If you add "&" after the name of the program you can continue typing commands into the console. If you need more information on this then you can visit the mandriva's official site and there you can find detailed information on this.
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