How to access windows partition through open suse 10.3? to save downloaded files for xp?
May 24, 2010 by: admin
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How to access windows partition through open suse 10.3?
to save downloaded files for xp?
How to access windows partition through open suse 10.3?
to save downloaded files for xp?
go to my computer and it should show a filesystem corresponding to the size of your Windows partition. you may need administrative privileges to access it though
assuming you used / kept the default partition type (NTFS) during XP installation you will need NTFS Read/Write support to access the partition from a Linux installation.
a much simpler way to share files between XP and Linux is simply to use a USB stick or drive; openSUSE will mount it under /media/{drive name} and XP give it some drive letter. (the USB drive has to be in FAT32 not NTFS (!))
to figure out which is your XP partition
if you have a never PC with SATA disk
pc:/ # fdisk -l /dev/sd?
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 2612 19457 135315494+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 1 2611 20972826 83 Linux
if you have an older PC with ATA disk
pc:/ # fdisk -l /dev/hd?
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 14 2611 20868435 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda3 2612 10011 59440500 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
YOU HAVE TO DO WHAT FOLLOWS AS root
assuming your XP partition is /dev/sda1 above, the steps are
unmount the partition that openSUSE mounted read-only
pc:/ # umount /dev/sda1
if you haven’t created a mount-point already, do this (only needed the 1st time):
pc:/ # mkdir /mnt/c
mount the XP c: drive read / write with ntfs-3g
pc:/ # ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /mnt/c
once you are done copying files to your XP partition, it is advisable to unmount it right away. ntfs-3g is pretty stable, but if your PC crashes while it is mounted, the drive maybe left in a corrupt state. thus
pc:/ # umount /dev/sda1