I have several different linux's and one partition with w2k on 2 different hard drive's and i am wondering how i can see and manipulate my windows(especially) and linux partion in linux(red hat 7). and its ntfs if that matters. thanks

Yes NTFS matters. You need kernel support for NTFS and it is readonly unless you want to use Alpha level drivers to write and if you like your data I would stick with read only for now.

Don't be trying to use Linux to write to your NTFS partitions. Trust me.

Thanks for the tips. How would I view those partitions with linux. what are the steps to take to view these partitions? How would I change the kernal and what steps to change the kernal? Thanks

Read the Kernel howto at http://ibiblio.org. Kernel recompile instructions are too complex for this venue. Be sure to enable NTFS readonly support while running make xconfig or equivalent.

I just had the same problem tonight. My Windows 2000 partition was Trashed. Could not (and still can't) get to the login prompt in Win2k!!! It looks like I may have to reinstall the whole operating system, but I was able to salvage my critical files by mounting the NTFS partition from SuSE 6.3 Here's how I did it. (this assumes you have NTFS support, which I was lucky enough to have) I created a directory in linux called "/ntfs" then I typed: mount -t ntfs /dev/hde2 /ntfs What this means: Mount basically means to connect to the drive -t means "type" of filesystem being mounted In this case it's "ntfs" /dev/hde2 is the device that's going to be mounted. The toughest part for me was to figure out what the device was called. I was able to get some clues by knowing where I plugged in my harddrive into my motherboard, and by typing "mount" to find out what is currently mounted (and where it's mounted) /ntfs was the place where I wanted to be able to view the files. It's pretty cool because I can put it anywhere I want. I chose /ntfs just to keep things simple. If you need more help, the man pages might be useful. They were very straight forward for me. hope that helps.

Here is a small tip if you rebuild it. Make the file systems FAT32 in Windows