adding second drive with data

[vwcaddy]

hi everyone

i have a windows xp pc that i store data on 4 sata drives x 250MB

i replaced drive c and installed debian on it and its working great .

now if i conect any of the other drives the pc wont boot up .
if i boot up then connect the drives i can see them but cant access them .

i dont want to loose the data but the drives are windows ntfs will debian read this or do i have to format the drives and start again?


dave.. a debian dummy.

[aliov]

Try to make yourself clear , you mean by connecting drive it's HDD connected to IDE, Sata USB ?


Regards.

[devils casper]

Hi and Welcome !

now if i conect any of the other drives the pc wont boot up .
if i boot up then connect the drives i can see them but cant access them .

You are not plugging in other disks correctly. Try resetting Boot Order. Linux Disk must be plugged in as Primary Master only.

i dont want to loose the data but the drives are windows ntfs will debian read this or do i have to format the drives and start again?

Debian supports NTFS read access out of box. Install ntfs-3g package to enable NTFS write access.

[vwcaddy]

You are not plugging in other disks correctly. Try resetting Boot Order. Linux Disk must be plugged in as Primary Master only. .

your right cheers got that sorted now.

Debian supports NTFS read access out of box. Install ntfs-3g package to enable NTFS write access.

the sata drives are displayed on the desktop but i get message ( do not have permissions to view contents of " disks-conf-sdd1" )

i can look at the drives through the disc manager using browse button ,and all my files are readable

sorry if the expanations are a bit windowsy i havent adjusted yet to a new way of thinking.

thanks dave..