Mounting partitions and dual booting

[Spun]

Alright, so I am new to linux in general. I used a redhat release about 2 years ago for about a month and now I have decided to give it all a try once again.

I installed Kubuntu a few days ago and have been having trouble getting GRUB to work basically. So I had my windows partition mounted and I want to mount it again (after reinstalling and trying to get GRUB to work). I had to download something called "diskmounter" and it sort or permanently mounted my windows partition for me. That was great while it lasted.

So I decided to reinstall kubuntu in an attempt to get GRUB working. However GRUB did not detect my windows install and I do not know how to get it to work without formatting my windows partition. Also, I cannot find the diskmounter program that i used to mount my windows partition and apparently i don't have it?

I don't know how to access my windows partition at all and every site keeps mentiong that i can add the diskmounter applet to my panel but I don't even have it. So basically I would like to get GRUB working with windows and kubuntu without formatting the windows partition and somehow get the same windows partition to automatically mount everytime a new session starts.

Sorry, i'm really new to everything. I appreciate any help!

[genesus]

There is a dual-booting tutorial on this site that will give you a perfect step by step...search for that, many will probably not feel like posting step by step for you when the resource exists.

[iwanabeguru]

hi

If your windows partition has ntfs fs i reccomend you use it read only mode.
make a mount point for your partition

mkdir /mnt/windows

add the line to the /etc/fstab

/dev/hdxy /mnt/windows ntfs ro,user,noauto,gid=disk,umask=0222 0 0

hdxy s the device file wich represent the disk partiton.
primary master controller hda
first partition on hda the hda1 , the second , hda2 , .....
primary slave ide controller hdb
secondary master hdc
secondary slave hdd

the user who want mount the partition must be a member of the disk group
and mount the partition

mount /mnt/windows

heva fun!