What to do when a distro doesn't open folders found on the hdd, only the USB external ones?
RodMcKay
not all distros seem to be able to open my existing folders/partitions
on the hdd. They _all_ so far have opened all the external USB drives
but not the folders found right on the hdd itself. Was wondering why
this might be so, anyone know?
My plan is to buy another external 500 gig drive since they're quite
cheap now at a local store (regular price, _not_ a sale price, of
about Cdn$125.00) and then migrate all my Window$ files/folders to it
then raze everything to the ground on my hdd and rebuild completely in
Linux. But until such a time, am going to stick with a LiveCD
approach. However, since I'm still going to be accessing my old
files, need to figure out how to fix the fact that some distros won't
open the folders. Once I do that, then I won't be limited to a
particular distro just because it happens to be able to access all
files.
Thanks! Really appreciate the help and feel good knowing that all
this might also help other Window$ users doing the switch, too <g>.
J.O. Aho
> One last "stoopid newb" question tonight, if I may ... I found that
> not all distros seem to be able to open my existing folders/partitions
> on the hdd. They _all_ so far have opened all the external USB drives
> but not the folders found right on the hdd itself. Was wondering why
> this might be so, anyone know?
Do you happen to mean partitions or directories with your "folders"?
If you mean partitions, then check in /dev for hdX1 hdX2 sdX1 or and sdX2
(exchange the X to a lower case letter, where a is primary hard drive, b is
secondary and so on), add it to your /etc/fstab
/dev/sda1 /mnt/windows vfat default 0 0
remember that the directory has to exist to where you want to mount the
device. This is just a basic example, there are quite a lot about mounting
vfat, ntfs at google.
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//Aho
baron
Some distros prevent you from damaging your own installed system by
preventing access to it. That doesn't mean that you can't access it,
it just means that you have to learn how to and understand the
consequences of doing so. Windows is fragile and easily damaged,
sometimes in ways you might not expect.
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Best Regards:
Baron.
richie086
Hello Rod,
Are there particular folders you are having issues getting into? What
file system are you using on these drives? NTFS? FAT32? I am going to
guess NTFS since windows does not allow creating FAT32 partitions larger
than 32GB.
What Linux distro are you planning on using when you do make the switch?
What distro are you currently using as a live cd? There are various
tools that will help you when it comes to mounting NTFS volumes, as well
as a variety of GUI tools depending on your distro.
If you could give a few examples of the folders you are having issues
with, it might help.
Thanks
Richie
