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Thursday, November 09, 2006

Accessing Windows Partition in Linux

Today i was successfull in accessing my Win partitions through my Ubuntu..(Cheers!!!).

I have two HDDs with hda for win and hdb for linux..I will give the commands i used..

1.Check ur hard disk partitions from root by, /sbin/fdisk -l which lists ur partitions with file systems.

2.Make mounting points for the Win partition in /mnt by,

#mkdir /mnt/win1
#monut -t vfat /dev/hda1(or whichever win partition u want) /mnt/win1
#cd /mnt/win
#ls -al
all ur directories and files in hda1 will be listed...In ubuntu since there is GUI ,press Cntrl+Alt+F7 to go to GUI and get to mnt directory and open win1 directory to enjoy ur Win files that u badly needed to be accessed from Linux.....And thank Linus and the whole linux community.....Linux Questions and others....

Keep working hard....Success will be ur's...

Hi ,but i observed that i m not able to mount more than a single partition at a time and not all win 32 partitions and not a ntfs partition at all...I will have to do more search on that..
Interstingly, u can do all these with the ubuntu GUI through System->Administration->Disks
Simply u have to specify a mount point and Enable->Browse to browse through the entire win partitions........Enjoy!!!!

Life is beautifull...Enjoy.....

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