permission settings to view 2nd hard drive w/Windows files
From: gurdude (DoNotSpamgurdudeNoSpam_at_nospam.yahoo.com)
Date: 03/16/04
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Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 21:12:12 -0500
Matthew and James:
Thanks for the clear guidelines and instructions. I followed everything
and I can now access the contents of the hard drive that contains
Windows XP (and all of my Windows files). Thanks!
HOWEVER! To create the "c" folder and mount it, I had to log in as
root. Now, when I go back to my regular user account, it stops me and
says "You do not have the permissions necessary to view the contents of
"c". I logged in again as root and tried everything I could think of:
the Permissions tab (said the c folder was read only and wouldn't let me
check other boxes); chmod and chown in the terminal window (says "failed
to get attributes of `c': No such file or directory"). Nothing seems to
work, and I don't see why it should be giving me a problem.
Any suggestions on how to correct the permissions or ownership so that I
can access it using my regular user account would be most welcome.
-gurdude
James T wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 20:48:09 -0500, gurdude wrote:
>
>
>>N E W B I E question.... sorry!
>>
>>I currently have a single hard drive on my computer that runs Windows
>>XP.
>>
>>I am planning to install a 2nd hard drive (clean) and install Linux
>>Fedora Core.
>>
>>If the install goes smoothly, and I am running Linux on drive #2, will I
>>be able to view and browse the contents of the 1st hard drive (i.e. all
>>of my Windows files?). Anything special I need to do to drive #1 before
>>installing Linux?
>>
>>FYI: I am planning to disconnect the 1st drive until I am certain that
>>Linux is up and running. Also, to choose which OS, I was going to have
>>it be selectable from the BIOS.
>
>
> This can be done with the first drive still connected. Just did this
> exact same thing recently with Windows 98se on the 1st hard drive & fedora
> core 1 on the 2nd hard drive. Worked like a charm for the install.
> Letting Grub be my boot loader was perfect. Can select from windows or
> Linux as my OS as the system boots.
>
> As to the reading of the files off the windows hard drive, you will need
> to mount the 1st hard drive drive Linux.
>
> To do this simply create a folder called 'c' in the /mnt folder of linux.
>
> Then when you need to mount the windows drive, you put in the command:
>
> mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/c
>
> Then you can CD into /mnt/c and you will see your windows C drive
> contents.
>
> This of course assumes that windows only has 1 partition on your 1st hard
> drive.
>
> James
> turajb@_NOSPAM_hoflink.com
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