How do you get into harddrives that run on XP

Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: How do you get into harddrives that run on XP
started by: Robby

Posted by Robby on Mar. 09 2004,08:36

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 :angry:

Posted by Rapidweather on Mar. 10 2004,01:47

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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:;):

Posted by Modrak on Mar. 12 2004,18:32

winXP are using NTFS...you cant boot off NTFS partion.

Posted by hasty on Mar. 12 2004,19:39

>>winXP are using NTFS...
Only if you choose it at installation.
Xp can also use fat32 (though I must pretend that I know nothing about it:))

Posted by TyphoonMentat on Mar. 12 2004,20:35

AFAIK, FAT32 can't be used on drives larger than 20Gb or so (might be greater). For the standard 80Gb disks of today, NTFS is needed - that is, if you can't get a decent filesystem like ReiserFS for instance. ;)

Posted by hasty on Mar. 13 2004,10:33

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

Posted by anonymous coward on Mar. 25 2004,20:14

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.

Posted by Arioch on Mar. 26 2004,00:39

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.

Posted by zozeer on Mar. 30 2004,11:46

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?

Posted by Serenity on Mar. 30 2004,12:27

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.