RE: accessing the windows hard drive

["Taylor, ForrestX" <forrestx taylor intel com>]

> > I have linux on 1 hard drive and windows on the other, windows is my
> > secondary drive and linux my primary
> > 
> > how can I access my files or transfer files between them???
> > 
> > 
> > any response would be greatly Appreciated
> 
> Is the Windows partition FAT/FAT32?  If so, you can mount it 
> under Linux.
> You must find out which partition it is on (e.g. /dev/hda1, 
> /dev/hdb1, etc.)
> and create a place to mount it.  I usually mount it under /mnt/win.
> Wherever you choose to mount it, the directory must exist (e.g. mkdir
> /mnt/win), and then you can mount it:
> 
> # mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/win	### Do this as root
> 
> Once you are convinced that works, put an entry in /etc/fstab 
> to mount it at
> boot time:
> 
> /dev/hdb1	/mnt/win	vfat	defaults	0 0
> 
> Then you can transfer files ;o)
> 
> Forrest

If you have troubles finding out which partition is the windows partition,
as root type:

fdisk -l

and look for the partition that has Win95 FAT32.  That is the partition that
you want to use.

Forrest