I cannot mount my Windows filesystem, using common commands that should work. In windows it appears to be set up so the primary partition is as follows: C: 27Gb - NTFS (boot) D: 1Gb - FAT (this drive mounted ok something else - 102Mb Could be the LILO thing. The extended partion has 2 logical drives seens as follows in Windows 2k: 1: 8Gb main Linux system, 2: 1Gb Linux Swap I assume. The following commands have given the following output. I am not sure why this has failed to mount. As I am writing I realise that it could be because this device is not on /dev/hda1. How can I check this. Or am I going in the totally wrong direction? mount /dev/hda1 /media/Win2kNTFS mount: fs type ntfs not supported by kernel mount -t ntfs /dev/hda1 /media/Win2kNTFS mount: fs type ntfs not supported by kernel mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /media/Win2kNTFS mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda1, or too many mounted file df -k Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda5 8096152 4228052 3456840 56% / none 257444 0 257444 0% /dev/shm /dev/hda2 1019856 913312 106544 90% /media/idedisk1 df -a Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda5 8096152 4228052 3456840 56% / none 0 0 0 - /proc none 0 0 0 - /sys none 0 0 0 - /dev/pts usbfs 0 0 0 - /proc/bus/usb none 257444 0 257444 0% /dev/shm /dev/hda2 1019856 913312 106544 90% /media/idedisk1 none 0 0 0 - /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc sunrpc 0 0 0 - /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs mount -l /dev/hda5 on / type ext3 (rw) [/] none on /proc type proc (rw) none on /sys type sysfs (rw) none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw) none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw) /dev/hda2 on /media/idedisk1 type vfat (rw) none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw) sunrpc on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw)

"...fs type ntfs not supported by kernel..." That's your problem, NTFS isn't compiled into your kernel. Either recompile it or a newer kernel, install captive (http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/), or I think you may be able to get an RPM....you used to for redhat before it became fedora. NB the only way you safely write to NTFS under GNU/Linux is with captive....otherwise just stick to reading in case you corrupt any data.

The problem with NTFS is, that Microsoft did not publish a complete description of it. Linux developers can not be sure to know all the hidden bells and whistles in NTFS. Therefore they don't consider it as prudent to write into it. There are all the modules and tools out there on http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/ I'm actually using them with Fedora 3. Get the rpms for your system and HW and install them. The only thing is you should not write into it. mount it "readonly" with: mount /dev/hda1 /media/Win2kNTFS -t ntfs -o ro If you need a filesystem to write into from linux make it a FAT32. Peter