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

Didn't know that.

My main disk at work has 5 partitons and a couple were kept to fat 32 for norton ghost (must be an older version but it won't handle ntfs)

We live & learn

You can also use samba/windows file sharing to get at your xp files, just set the shares on the winxp side to "allow network users to change my files" and have at.

Robby, by default DSL mounts your ntfs drives read only. If you want to write to it you need to mount it with write permissions.

Try this... Open a terminal window and change to root by typing "sudo su". Then mount your XP drive with read/write by "mount -w /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1" Keep in mind that your drive might not be hda1, I'm just using that as an example. Now if you open up EmelFM as root you can view and change anything on your XP drive.

Be careful what you change in there. ; ) Someone may have a better method that this... I'm pretty new to Linux but I've accessed my XP partion this way. Hope that helps.

i tried that last one, and i cant move files in and out of xp. eg: theres this background that i want in xp, located in my dsl partition and i cant move it to the xp. what gives?

I successfully partitioned an 80gb drive in fat32 format by using something from seagate called diskwizard. Find it on their support site. It worked on my ibm drive so I assume it will work on other non-seagate branded drives. Get the cd iso as that works as both a boot disk and from within windows.

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