Hardrive and linux.

[Richard Beer]

If I have linux mint installed on one hardrive, How do I acess my music off my other hardrive which runs Windows XP, Somone mentioned mounting but I do not know what to do, I am completley new to Linux.

 

[BillytheImpaler]

I'm not intimately familiar with Mint, but I am familiar with Ubuntu, from which Mint draws a lot of functionality.

Open up a terminal window, enter this command, and paste what it returns here. It'll give us an idea of what your system is like. We can go from there.

sudo fdisk -l

 

[Richard Beer]

Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00009903

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 19080 153260068+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 19081 19457 3028252+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 19081 19457 3028221 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Disk /dev/sdb: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xace22e9e

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 1019 8185086 1b Hidden W95 FAT32
/dev/sdb2 * 1020 4934 31447237+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb3 4936 19457 116647965 7 HPFS/NTFS

That is the read out I get, I have just installed linux mint and set everything up, I hooked up the windows xp HDD, and the icon shows up, but it says access denied.

 

[craptakular]

sudo apt-get install ntfs-3g

That will work wont it billy?

Find the program in Adminstration section of the menu