Access to Windoze
This is a discussion about Access to Windoze in the Everything Linux category; P4S533_MX Windows 2000 on HDA1 Red Hat linux 8 completely updated (2. 4. 18-20 I believe) Is there any way to get access to the files on my windows partition from linux? Can I have the newbie's instruction set please Thanks all.
P4S533_MX
Windows 2000 on HDA1
Red Hat linux 8 completely updated (2.4.18-20 I believe)
Is there any way to get access to the files on my windows partition from linux?
Can I have the newbie's instruction set please
Thanks all
Windows 2000 on HDA1
Red Hat linux 8 completely updated (2.4.18-20 I believe)
Is there any way to get access to the files on my windows partition from linux?
Can I have the newbie's instruction set please
Thanks all
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I guess I will start off the reply, then let the experts take ot from there.
With Windows 2000, are you running the NTFS filesystem or Fat32?
With Windows 2000, are you running the NTFS filesystem or Fat32?
OP
yup NTFS
that's bad for what I want to do right?
How about disk format if I want to copy the files I need to CD and have the CD recognizable to Linux....can I do that through Windows?
Thanks
that's bad for what I want to do right?
How about disk format if I want to copy the files I need to CD and have the CD recognizable to Linux....can I do that through Windows?
Thanks
There's a thread on this forum with links to som RPMs that will enabled NTFS read support (which is all you'll get on Linux for quite some time) on Red Hat 8:
http://www.linuxcompatible.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=131
After they're installed, mounting your NTFS partition is as simple as any other partition type:
Code:
that assumes /mnt/windows exists on your system. If it doesn't create it with the following command (as root):
Code:
http://www.linuxcompatible.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=131
After they're installed, mounting your NTFS partition is as simple as any other partition type:
Code:
mount -t ntfs -r -o umask=0222 /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows
that assumes /mnt/windows exists on your system. If it doesn't create it with the following command (as root):
Code:
mkdir /mnt/windows
Nice instructions! That was what I was not sure about, the exact commands to access/mount the NTFS partition.
What I did on my system, to avoid the hassle, was to create a fat32 partition on my drive, so that I could save files there that can be accessed either in Windows or Linux. You can then mount the drive (the newest Linux versions now mount the Windows/Fat32 partitions for you) in Linux. This way you can access (read and write) the partition in either OS.
Support "out of the box" in newer versions of Linux is already built in and are able to read CD's created in Windows, so this is another option.
So, if you insert a CD that was created in Windows, either Linux will auto open the CD, or it will recognize the CD when you click on your CD icon on the desktop.
What I did on my system, to avoid the hassle, was to create a fat32 partition on my drive, so that I could save files there that can be accessed either in Windows or Linux. You can then mount the drive (the newest Linux versions now mount the Windows/Fat32 partitions for you) in Linux. This way you can access (read and write) the partition in either OS.
Support "out of the box" in newer versions of Linux is already built in and are able to read CD's created in Windows, so this is another option.
So, if you insert a CD that was created in Windows, either Linux will auto open the CD, or it will recognize the CD when you click on your CD icon on the desktop.
