[SOLVED] I can't see windows partion from linux.

[Dream_wave]

Hi, i have P4 with dual HDD, the primary is sata and has windows installed on it and the secondary HDD is IDE and has Suse 10.2 installed on it.
but i can't see the primary hdd at all from Suse linux.
Please can anyone tell me whether there is a solution for this problem or should i change to Redhat or mandriva Linux?
appreciate your help.
Thanx.

[devils casper]

Hi and Welcome !

SuSe automounts FAT32 and NTFS partitions. Have you checked My Computer or /media folder?
Open Terminal/Konsole and execute this

su -
fdisk -l
df -h

Post output here.

[simple2021]

my guess is that if your partitions are ntfs then they wont be automounted. so you are going to have to mount them yourself.
if the partitions are not ntfs then the mount command should work just fine ( do a man mount on the terminal)
if the partitions are ntfs then do a bit of googling on ntfs-3g which supports ntfs partitions.
hope this helps
c ya!!

[devils casper]

my guess is that if your partitions are ntfs then they wont be automounted. so you are going to have to mount them yourself.
if the partitions are not ntfs then the mount command should work just fine ( do a man mount on the terminal)

Hi and Welcome !

SuSe automounts both NTFS and FAT32 partitions. It doesn't support NTFS write access out of box so one has to install ntfs-3g package to enable write access.

[simple2021]

SuSe automounts both NTFS and FAT32 partitions. It doesn't support NTFS write access out of box so one has to install ntfs-3g package to enable write access.

i will disagree with that. i have suse 10.3 and it doesn't automount any of my partitions (regardless of whether they are ntfs or fat32)
if you want automount to work then you will have to manually add entries in the /etc/fstab file so that it automounts everytime your pc boots!!
c ya!!

[devils casper]

Thats pretty strange. SuSe does detect all partitions during installation and automount those.

[Dream_wave]

Hi; Here is the output for the HDD Fdisk
hope it will be helpful to solve my problem.
thanx again for everyone.

Disk /dev/sda: 20.4 GB, 20490559488 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2491 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 97 779121 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda2 1247 2491 10000462+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda3 98 842 5984212+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda5 1247 2491 10000431 7 HPFS/NTFS

Partition table entries are not in disk order

Disk /dev/sdb: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24321 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 2550 20482843+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb2 2551 24321 174875557+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sdb5 2551 5100 20482843+ b W95 FAT32
/dev/sdb6 5101 7650 20482843+ b W95 FAT32
/dev/sdb7 7651 12749 40957686 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb8 12750 15299 20482843+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb9 15300 17849 20482843+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb10 17850 21673 30716248+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb11 21674 24321 21270028+ 7 HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/sdc: 1031 MB, 1031798784 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 125 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

[devils casper]

Post the output of df -h command too.

[Jonathan183]

i will disagree with that. i have suse 10.3 and it doesn't automount any of my partitions (regardless of whether they are ntfs or fat32)
if you want automount to work then you will have to manually add entries in the /etc/fstab file so that it automounts everytime your pc boots!!
c ya!!

SUSE 10.3 will detect and setup mounts for windows automatically. If you decide not to mount Windows partitions during the install the easiest way to sort this is using partitioner which is in Yast->system->partitioner. Edit of /etc/fstab is possible but it is easier to use Yast which will also create directories for you to mount Windows partitions to.

[oldcpu]

Hi; Here is the output for the HDD Fdisk

Thats a lot of partitions. Very close to the openSUSE libata limit of 15 partitions.