Cant access windows driver not mounted

[malcolm harvey]

Hi there...

ive installed mandrake spring 2008 edition, logged in root user or admin.
My hard disk arangement is that my master drive is windows and the secondy ide on the second port is mandriva. (so when i installed mandriva linux, i asked the boot loader to go on first drive and linux on second drive, take over drive).
using boot loader i log into linux, it shows the windows drive there as an icon but when i try to share or open it etc, it says not mounted. and it wont mount either.
it does come up with some strange msg as per below when try to click on it.-

("org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-fixed, auth_admin_keep_always<--(action,result).

ive no help on this msg at all.??
is this because somehow i need to mount this on linux boot??

Also the migration tool says that i can import windows docs and files etc into linux.
This also fails as says no windows os found, im assuming because not mounted.
My other thought was because i have installed linux on another drive and i should have installed on a partition on same windows drive? Someone said it should have auto mounted on boot into linux desktop??

Thanks
Malcolm.

[Jonathan183]

Welcome to the forums Malcolm

I don't use the same distro so not sure if sudo or su will work ... type

su -

enter password when prompted
if the end of the prompt is still $ then type

sudo -s

enter password when prompted
the end of the prompt should change to a #
type

fdisk -l

the l is a small L
also type

cat /etc/fstab
mount

and post the output here.

We should then know disk partition structure, what is being mounted at startup etc.

[malcolm harvey]

Ok this was the output below from the commands under shell.

/* ------------*/
[grandalf@localhost ~]$ su -
Password:
[root@localhost ~]# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x29059eec

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 9729 78148161 7 HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/hdc: 20.5 GB, 20525137920 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2495 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0e38ac80

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdc1 1 65 522081 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hdc2 * 66 2495 19518975 83 Linux
/*-------------*/

# Entry for /dev/hdc2 :
UUID=d87effd6-c604-4e16-831f-4f4d57f9fddf / reiserfs defaults 1 1
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
# Entry for /dev/hdc1 :
UUID=5777297c-52d6-430c-9737-a26754c46869 swap swap defaults 0 0

[root@localhost ~]# mount
/dev/hdc2 on / type reiserfs (rw)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw)
sunrpc on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw)
nfsd on /proc/fs/nfsd type nfsd (rw)
none on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)

[Jonathan183]

First you need to create a folder to mount your windows partition to ... lets say its /windows, then you should be able to mount the partition ... try

su -
mkdir /windows
mount /dev/hda1 /windows
ls /windows

That should give you at least read only access to windows information. If you need read/write access then you need to make sure the ntfs-3g driver is installed ...
type

ntfs-3g

what output do you get?
Also type

mount

again and post output

[malcolm harvey]

Ok..

now it shows in the shell that windows is mounted and can
list with ls /windows.

[root@localhost grandalf]# ls /windows
9ae4b831f47a28451ed24a/ hiberfil.sys pagefile.sys
ATI/ IO.SYS Program Files/
AUTOEXEC.BAT Legacy/ RECYCLER/
avi_log.txt lexmark/ Registry Mechanic/
BOOT.BKK logs/ sqmdata00.sqm
boot.ini lxctscan.log sqmnoopt00.sqm
Config.Msi/ moduleName.txt stuff/
CONFIG.SYS MSDOS.SYS System Volume Information/
Documents and Settings/ MSOCache/ Temp/
downl/ Nexon/ VTPFiles/
Far Cry/ NTDETECT.COM winamplog.txt
fc9a77dace06cab5df1606cd0e/ ntldr WINDOWS/
ftpcommander/ NVIDIA/


I also did the following typed mount and new output below.--
seams now in storage media on desktop i do have a mounted windows drive
but when u click on it it says now instead, "could not enter folder /windows".



/*-----------------------*/
[root@localhost grandalf]# mount
/dev/hdc2 on / type reiserfs (rw)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw)
sunrpc on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw)
nfsd on /proc/fs/nfsd type nfsd (rw)
none on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
/dev/hda1 on /windows type ntfs (rw)
/*----------------------*/

The command ntfs -3g came up commands "ntfs" not a valid command.

[Jonathan183]

There is no space in ntfs-3g try the command again if you need read/write access.

If its a single user system you should be able to just chown the folder to your regular user to allow read only access.

Ed:

man chown mount ntfs-3g

should provide the info you need ... post back if you need more help.

[malcolm harvey]

There is no space in ntfs-3g try the command again if you need read/write access.

If its a single user system you should be able to just chown the folder to your regular user to allow read only access.

Ed:

man chown mount ntfs-3g

should provide the info you need ... post back if you need more help.

Ok...ive now ran "ntfs-3g /dev/hda1 /windows" and now got desktop icon
of my windows driver, and can open and view and rw, brilliant. thx

[malcolm harvey]

Ok...ive now ran "ntfs-3g /dev/hda1 /windows" and now got desktop icon
of my windows drive, and can open and view and rw, brilliant. thx

I guess there probably is a way to put this on the boot somehow?

[Jonathan183]

Glad your sorted ... if you want to always mount the partition add an entry to /etc/fstab ... being lazy I tend to copy the entry in /etc/mtab to /etc/fstab