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I have Kubuntu Linux 5.4 installed on an extra 40gig HD that I had laying around and I just had a quick question. I know to use the Grub boot ...
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I have Kubuntu Linux 5.4 installed on an extra 40gig HD that I had laying around and I just had a quick question. I know to use the Grub boot thing, I have to set the linux HD to first boot device. . . but when I'm in linux, and I goto "Storage Media" it has my 80gig windows drive shown, but when I click on it, it says it isn't mounted.
How could I get into my Windows drive? I LOVE using linux, but I have no music on this drive and 2000+ on my other. . .
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I assume your drive is ntfs?
You should probably check to see if NTFS is supported in your kernel first.
I don't know of any way thento check this. (I cannot seem to find anything ntfs in my kernel ATM, not sure if this works)Code:lsmod
To mount a disk with ntfs at a prompt as root, try running:
and substitute hdb1 with your drives device name and partition. hdb1 is my primary slave drive's first partition.Code:mount -t ntfs /dev/hdb1 /place/ofyourchoice
On most distros you can check this withCode:cat /proc/diskstats
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Yes, try that. NTFS cannot be read by linux partitions. This is why I use fat32 for my windoze partiton.
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well, i run the nt file system on my other HD, so . . . bleh, whatever. NOt tooo important for me to access it. At least Linux actually sees the drive, Windows won't even look at it lol
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NTFS can be read just fine by Linux. It cannot be written on in Linux without 3rd party software or without a custom kernel.
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Not in my experiance...
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apt-get install libntfs5
That will give you the ability to read from your NTFS partition once you get mount setup properly.
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ubuntuguide.org has directions to make a windows partition mount at boot in ubuntu.
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Yes. And even with a custom kernel the only way to write is to replace the existing files with only files of the same size! Originally Posted by borromini NTFS can be read just fine by Linux. It cannot be written on in Linux without 3rd party software or without a custom kernel. Originally Posted by chopin1810 
I did try to use 'Captive NTFS' and it got to the point where I downloaded part of WinXP-SP2 to grab ntfs.sys or the like from it.
http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/
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