Other Help Topics :: How do you get into harddrives that run on XP

i have windows XP and when i try to go into a harddrive on DSL that i'v mounted it says that i do not have read-only acsess  

I have a Dell that has XP, and they name the partitions differently than I am used to. Since there is a hidden partition for restoration purposes at /dev/hde1, I ignore that, and find XP at /dev/hde2.
They must have known about Knoppix, so when I place a /knoppix folder there, the knoppix boot floppy cannot find it. Clever of Dell and Microsoft to come up with the hde instead of hda.
So I mount /dev/hde2, and I can browse around in there, but I did not try and write anything, not wanting to upset XP. I could review some images, however, using xzgv, and that worked ok.
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I suppose one could also browse around in XP using tomsrtbt or bootE linux,
these distros are on a floppy. You would not have to change the boot order to
get them to work.
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