Accessing My Windows 98 Hard Drive Through Linux?

[VoytekG]

Hey!
I originally had two hard drives - C: and D:. Now that I installed Linux, I can only access C with Windows 98 and D with Linux. The thing I would like to know is if there is any way for me to access C: through Linux?
Also, does anyone know of any sites or books I can read to familiarize myself with Linux? I am a very inexperienced.
Thanks,
Voytek

[l_Kriss]

well, if you can poste the output from 'fdis -l' here it would be much more easy'er to help you
but this might do the trick: (edit it so it fits your system)

mkdir /mnt/win_c && mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c

If you get a "Fs not supported by kernel" try to
/sbin/modprobe vfat
or recompile your kernel, or just a module.

Good luck

[genlee]

That line will fail the 2nd time he goes to mount the drive. I suggest adding the following like to your fstab.

/dev/hda1     /mnt/win_c     vfat     defaults     0 0

Make sure you create the /mnt/win_c directory so it has a mount point. You can actually use any mount point you would like.

[Arkas]

If your C Drive is Fat32 formatted you can do the following:
First create a dir in your /home/user/ (e.g. Windows)
Then as su type mount /dev/hda1(or whatever your c drive is called) /home/user/Windows
In order for all to have read and write permission in that drive and to have it mount automatically on startup edit your /etc/fstab file like this:
Login as su
cd /etc
vi fstab
Press o to enter insert mode
Enter the following lines at the bottom
/dev/hda1(or whatever...) /home/user/Windows vfat user,uid=500,gid=500 0 0
Press ESC to exit insert mode then :wq
Reboot and you are all done!

[me_g3nius]

pls any one tell me the easiest way of seeing windowx, window2000 or win98 partition in LINUX I want to know step by step plsssssssssss

[Dolda2000]

I believe yowwww covered that in his guide. Check it out:
http://members.rogers.com/ctmlinux/

[yowwww]

Dolda, you are quick, you beat me to it!

it's on the helpful tips page

[scientica]

/dev/hda1(or whatever...) /home/user/Windows vfat user,uid=500,gid=500 0 0

Thanks, it worked for me (I was going to ask (before I thougth of using the search button) how to mount the paritions so that I got get write access without having to su every thing).
Btw, there is not need to reboot, simplu type these line (while beeing root):
umount -a
mount -a