accessing Winodws Drives while working in Mandrake

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???...

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#3886 - 12/21/03 01:13 AM accessing Winodws Drives while working in Mandrake asherlev4 stranger Registered: 12/21/03 Posts: 3 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??? Top

#3887 - 12/21/03 01:17 AM Re: accessing Winodws Drives while working in Mandrake noxorc stranger Registered: 12/19/03 Posts: 4 are you root? or do you have Priv's to do that action? Top

#3888 - 12/21/03 01:23 AM Re: accessing Winodws Drives while working in Mandrake asherlev4 stranger Registered: 12/21/03 Posts: 3 I sign in under the normal user that mandrake creates, should I be signing into the root user? Top

#3889 - 12/21/03 01:29 AM Re: accessing Winodws Drives while working in Mandrake noxorc stranger Registered: 12/19/03 Posts: 4 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. Top

#3890 - 12/21/03 01:32 AM Re: accessing Winodws Drives while working in Mandrake asherlev4 stranger Registered: 12/21/03 Posts: 3 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... Top

#3893 - 12/21/03 11:50 AM Re: accessing Winodws Drives while working in Mandrake danleff Carpal Tunnel Registered: 08/30/02 Posts: 2869 Loc: Albany, NY 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. Top

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