Accessing my Windows Partition in Mandrake9

[Nam Oneph]

Hello,
NUBEE here (to the world of LINUX) and I have a question;
When I was runnning SuSE7 I was able to access my Windows partition easily cause SuSE automatically put an icon on the desktop that leads you to your Windows files.
But since SuSE7 didn't support my NIC and my SuSE8.2 hasn't arrived yet, I decided to give Mandrake9 a go and everything seems to work fine except that I don't seem to find my Windows partition anywhere. Is it me or does Mandrake9 don't give you access to the files on another OS?

Thank yall in advance for your help!

Nam Oneph

[myshkin]

mine was detected automatically, and it is mounted at /mnt/win_c. funny yours is'nt.

[kotj.mf]

add the following line to yout /etc/fstab file; change the /dev/hda1 to whatever your windows partition is:

/dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat auto,owner,users 0 0

then, in, at the command line;

mkdir /mnt/windows
updfstab

[Nam Oneph]

To kotj.mf:
I went to the file fstab and this is what I found already there:
/dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat user,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1,noauto,umask=0 0 0
Should I make any chages to this?


To myshkin:
I saw mine "mounted" at /mnt/windows but some how when I try to click on it it comes blank...

[77Punker]

I use Mandrake 9.1 and have the same problem at times. Use the diskDrake partition tool and select the partition by clicking on it, then click mount. Sometimes it appears to be mounted but really isn't.

[yoyolo]

The windows partitions should be mounted automatically by mandrake linux as:
/mnt/win_c =>windows partition C
/mnt/win_d =>windows partition D

if the win_c directory didn't appears under your /mnt directory, use the mandrake control center to mount the windows partition, or type the command:
mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c

[Nam Oneph]

Thank y'all for your help!
A special thanks to Yololo, I ended up following your suggestion and low and behold: MY Windoz files!!! :D

While we're on the subject: Can I safely delete and edit files that I have on my Windoz partition, from inside Linux? What Windoze files can I access safely and what files should I not mess with while I'm inside Linux?

Thanks!

[dvdnut]

i seem to recall that in my fstab, i had users as part of the win_d drive (the one i want to access)


but when i go into

/mnt/win_d/

i get permission denied (i have rebooted)

however when i use root i can access it fine.