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accessing Winodws Drives while working in Mandrake

#1 asherlev4

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Posted 21 December 2003 - 02:13 AM

I am having truble getting Mandrake to let me see inside my d: dirve from my windows partition it is a NTFS format. It shows the drive and that it is mounted but will not let me acess it. Any help???

#2 noxorc

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Posted 21 December 2003 - 02:17 AM

are you root? or do you have Priv's to do that action?

#3 asherlev4

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Posted 21 December 2003 - 02:23 AM

I sign in under the normal user that mandrake creates, should I be signing into the root user?

#4 noxorc

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Posted 21 December 2003 - 02:29 AM

I found that I needed to be root to mount an NTFS drive (partition).

One doesn't need to log in to root to become root, just su.
then try to access the mount point.

#5 asherlev4

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Posted 21 December 2003 - 02:32 AM

I got the drive mounted (at least it says it is mounted) but it says it is locked or something and will not acress the files on the drive...

#6 danleff

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Posted 21 December 2003 - 12:50 PM

Provided that this is Mandrake 9 or above, try this. After su into root in a konsole, then, at the konsole, type konqueror and see if you can browse your files. Remember that NTFS is read only, you can't write to NTFS in Linux.