How to make HDD Viewable...

[RLich8]

I'm running a dual-boot system. Drive 1 has WinXP Pro and a partition with my files, and drive 2 has Fedora Core 4 on it.

Is there any way I can make my drive 1 visible in linux?

 

[Vertigo Acid]

Well, you can get safe read-only NTFS in linux now; writing to NTFS is still not ready for prime-time.

 

[Mellman]

yeah you can read it fine, but i've had some issues writing to it.

 

[RLich8]

That's all I want to do is read it.

I basically just want to have access to my images and multimedia (songs, videos, etc.)

 

[Bullitt]

Make sure you have NTFS support loaded into your kernel (most modern distro's do this just fine)

"mkdir /winxp"
edit your fstab and include a line like this:

/dev/hda1    /winxp   ntfs users,owner,ro,umask=000 0 0

Then issue the "mount /winxp" as root and you should have read-only access to your NTFS partition. Please change /dev/hda1 to whatever your NTFS partition is for your particular machine.

 

[RLich8]

Thanks, I'll try that.