Hi All I have just installed Fedora core 7. In My PC I have 2 HDD, On the first one I have installed FC and on the other one I have XP, But I can't access Files on the second partition, where I have XP.
Assuming your description is correct (that you have Windows on your second hdd) you can mount the win partition using a simple command like: mount -t vfat /dev/hdb1 /mnt And if you get no error you should see the win files mounted under /mnt. If you get an error paste it here and also include the output of the command: dmesg |grep hd
I would suggest checking the correct hard disk/partition by using 'fdisk -l' which should list all the disks and the partitions based on which you should be able to mount the partition.
On my laptop with a single hard drive,
root@emily:~# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40007761920 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4864 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 1 642 5156833+ 83 Linux /dev/hda2 643 2559 15398302+ 83 Linux /dev/hda3 2560 2693 1076355 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/hda4 2694 3970 10257502+ 5 Extended /dev/hda5 2694 3970 10257471 83 Linux
This is a much better way of identifying disk/partition. The first solution provided by marius didn't work because your hard drive is a SATA/SCSI drive where drive letter starts from 'sd' and not 'hd' as in PATA drives.
cotone: I am happy that it worked for you and it fixed your issue. You are most welcome!
digen: thank you very much for your pertinent addition. For sure that is the way to go and any other peoples having the same issue should use the method presented by digen to find out the partition you need to mount (fdisk -l). I use this form of the command myself also to have a quick glance of the status of the drives on the system but I don't know why I haven't thought about that yesterday when I replied to this post. Thanks again man!.
hai , i'm using windows xp and instaled fedora 7... i can't access my windows drives in fedora. i instaled both os in same harddisk.Can you help me access fat32 in fedora 7