okay. so that 60 GB one is your C:\ drive, right? which one on your list looks like the H:\ drive? is the H:\ drive the one on the 1st hard drive?

no no, the 60gig is my H:

the 15 gig is what i use for the OS.

sorry bout the confusion

alrighty then. at the command line type these commands:

1. su
<enter root password>

2. mkdir /mnt/c
3. mkdir /mnt/h
4. kwrite
4a. Click File > Open
4b. in Location on the bottom, type this: /etc/fstab
4c. enter these entries at the bottom:

4d. Click File > Save
5. mount /dev/hda2
6. mount /dev/hdb1

now you're windows partitions are mounted. you can add hard drive icons to your desktop now. i use kde, so, i'll tell you how to do it in kde.

1. right click on an open space on your desktop
2. choose New > Hard disc from the context menu
3. The default tab is the General Tab. here you can give the icon a name that will be displayed on your desktop. give the icon a name like Windows C (or whatever you want).
4. click the Device Tab and from the device dropdown box, choose "/dev/hda2"
5. Click the Ok button
6. repeat from step one, except give the name of this one Windows H (or whatever you want) in step 3 and choose "/dev/hdb1" in step 4.

you can click on those icons now and see your windows files. you will be able to use your mp3s and other datafiles, you just won't be able to make changes to them or save anything on those drives. why? because it's very, very, very dangerous. did i mention that writing to ntfs partitions is very dangerous?

so if i run mp3's and movies from the ntfs partition am i gonna be alright??

yes, you should be okay. just remember like if you're going to listen to your mp3s, you can't do stuff like change the id3 tags because we set the drive to read only. that is safe for ntfs. setting your ntfs permissions for read-write is not safe at all.

i did the kwrite, and when i go back it tells me that i have errors in line 9

LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hda3 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
/dev/hda2 /mnt/c ntfs owner, unmask=0222, ro 0 0
/dev/hdb1 /mnt/h ntfs owner, unmask=0222, ro 0 0

, when i tab in kwrite , it leaves what looks like a period would this cause the error:

which is:

[root@localhost jason2]# mount /dev/hda2
[mntent]: line 9 in /etc/fstab is bad
[mntent]: line 10 in /etc/fstab is bad
mount: can't find /dev/hda2 in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab

/Jason

i dunno if ur gonna be able to pick an error outta there or wha

try getting rid of the spaces in those lines after the commas.

/dev/hda2 /mnt/c ntfs auto,owner,umask=0222,ro 0 0
/dev/hdb1 /mnt/h ntfs auto,owner,umask=0222,ro 0 0

and did you install that ntfs kernal support module?

yea i did install the NTFS, i will try without the spaces

now a diffferent error

[root@localhost jason2]# mount /dev/hda2
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda2,
or too many mounted file systems
[root@localhost jason2]# mount /dev/hdb1
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdb1,
or too many mounted file systems

u know what would cause this man??

/Jason

there is a binary file inside the amsn.tar.gz in a directory called msn i cant remember what it is called just copy it somewhere and execute it

all is good now, i was missing a file which i got and i can install fine now. and Gaim is fine for msn also.

/Jason

it looks like it's because it's SFS filesystem which is an encrypted filesystem for windows/dos. my guess is that you'll have to boot into windows to disable filesystem encryption. but before that, in your fstab, you could try to change the filesystem on the entries from ntfs to auto and see if it will mount. i doubt it though.

i know for a fact i am not using file security in windows.

is there another way to do this, may a program wich i capable?? thanks for everything so far mega.


/ Jason

well i don't really know. i was just looking back at your fdisk output and it shows 2 partitions with a file system of SFS.

like i said earlier, you could try in /etc/fstab to change ntfs to auto and see if it will mount. but i don't think it will or if it does, i'm not sure how this will affect those partitions. i'd seriously suggest that you check out your windows configuration as you might not be using security while you run windows, but maybe you have something where when windows shutsdown, you have it encrypt it's parititions.