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Author Topic: access windows area of HD in dual boot machine  (Read 3503 times)

alvey

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access windows area of HD in dual boot machine
« on: December 08, 2010, 01:49:10 pm »
Hi I am a newbie to VL.  In other flavours of Linux that I have used, I can use the file manager to access files in the windows partition of the hard drive on a dual boot machine.  I cannot see this area (NTFS) on VL.  I guess I have to mount the windows drive (sda I think), but I don't know how to do this.  Can anyone help please?

Regards     alvey
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nightflier

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Re: access windows area of HD in dual boot machine
« Reply #1 on: December 08, 2010, 06:14:17 pm »
Please tell us what version of VL you are using. Do you know if you selected vl-hot or HAL on install?
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GrannyGeek

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Re: access windows area of HD in dual boot machine
« Reply #2 on: December 08, 2010, 07:17:34 pm »
Quote from: alvey on December 08, 2010, 01:49:10 pm
Hi I am a newbie to VL.  In other flavours of Linux that I have used, I can use the file manager to access files in the windows partition of the hard drive on a dual boot machine.  I cannot see this area (NTFS) on VL.  I guess I have to mount the windows drive (sda I think), but I don't know how to do this.  Can anyone help please?

Did you run VASM to mount the drive?
VASM>>SUPER>>FILESYSTEM>>MOUNT>>ADD

Find your NTFS partition and go through the steps. Finish with FILESYSTEM>>MOUNT>>MOUNT to have the partition mounted when you quit VASM.

If  this doesn't work, post again and tell us what happens.
--GrannyGeek
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alvey

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Re: access windows area of HD in dual boot machine
« Reply #3 on: December 09, 2010, 02:52:27 am »
Thank you Granygeek, Nightflier.  I used VASM to mount the sd1 drive, and can now see the files.
Cheers.   
      Alvey
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