Greetings! I have a "dual-boot" system (Half Windows XP Pro and half Ubuntu Linux). For some reason, I cannot access my "C" (Windows) drive from Linux. How can I correct this? (Yes, I'm a "newbie") THANK YOU in advance for your help! ^o^
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You create a pointer to your WinXP drive, usually /dev/hda1 . As for dualbooting, you will be able to read an NTFS partition but writing may be an issue. Some distros do, many don't without tweaking, and some just can't.
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If the drive is formatted to NTFS then Ubuntu won't be able to read it.
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By default, Ubuntu has the necessary packages installed to read AND write to NTFS. It is called ntfs-3g I believe. During the install of Ubuntu you have an option to specify a mount point for the NTFS partition as well. It doesn't sound like you did this though which means you'll need to add a line to your /etc/fstab file. example: /dev/sda1 /my_winblows ntfs-3g auto,users,uid=1000,gid=100,dmask=027,fmask=137,utf8 0 0 https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Fstab#Fstab%20File%20Configuration https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MountingWindowsPartitions/ThirdPartyNTFS3G P.S. The ubuntuforums are the best place to ask this kind of question. You'll get much faster and much better answers. :-) P.P.S. You might be interested in this as well: http://www.fs-driver.org/
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Linux cannot see NTFS only FAT32
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