Can't see my NTFS partitions on seconday drive.

[thescribe7]

I went totally linux with mandrake 8.0 however my secondary drive which is my warehouse for my data is still the former windows 2000 ntfs. I created the win dir's in /mnt and mounted the partitions successfully however they come up as blank, totally empty except for on which had a normandy directory from when windows was installed. BTW even as root after doing a chmod 777 on the dir it won't let me delete it. Strange.
What have I overlooked Arghh! I have screwed something up but what? :mad:
Thanks in advance. :)

[Marcel2008]

It seems ntfs support hasn't been enabled in your kernel. Remember that you can only read from ntfs drives in linux (writing to ntfs is very experimental right now). What you should do is download the newest stable kernel, configure it to include ntfs read support. Start form this new kernel, and you will be able to access the ntfs drive.
Or if you do not want to do this, try partition magic to convert ntfs driver to fat.

Hope this helps, let me know ;)

[Malakin]

Mandrake 8 comes with an ntfs module pre compiled, or at least it did for me.

"insmod ntfs"

"mount -t ntfs /dev/hdc1 /mnt/win_c"

Of course substitute /dev/hdc1 and /mnt/win_c with whatever is appropriate for your setup.

[Craig McPherson]

NTFS support is under the "File Systems" kernel configuration category. You might need to have experimental options (first section of the kernel config) enabled in order to see it. That's the read-only driver only.

If you're interested in the read-write driver, see here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/linux-ntfs/

It will damage your filesystem.