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How to access Windows partition?

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  1. snowpine
    Member
    22 posts

    Here's a basic question: How do I access my Windows partition? I would like to be able to listen to music stored on that partition while I'm enjoying my Crunchbang awesomeness. When I open the mount disk utility, my Windows partition doesn't even appear... is it possible I'm missing some really basic driver for the Windows filesystem, or something like that?

    Posted 1 year ago #

  2. madcrow
    Member
    37 posts

    Hello,

    Can you do:
    sudo fdisk -l in Terminator ?

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    #! 8.04.02, Linux Mint XFCE CE Elyssa, ToutouLinux 3.01.4, Slitaz ( a very small linux )
    Posted 1 year ago #

  3. snowpine
    Member
    22 posts

    Hi Madcrow, thanks for the quick reply. Here is the output of fdisk -l (/dev/sda1 is the partition I'm trying to access):

    Disk /dev/sda: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytes
    255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24321 cylinders
    Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
    Disk identifier: 0x4b36bdea

    Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
    /dev/sda1 * 560 16455 127684620 7 HPFS/NTFS
    /dev/sda2 1 559 4490136 b W95 FAT32
    /dev/sda3 16456 17745 10361925 83 Linux
    /dev/sda4 17746 24321 52821720 5 Extended
    /dev/sda5 24138 24321 1477948+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
    /dev/sda6 17746 23996 50211094+ 83 Linux
    /dev/sda7 23997 24137 1132551 83 Linux

    Partition table entries are not in disk order

    Another thing I noticed is that when I run Gparted, I get the error: "Failed to mount 130G Volume. org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-fixed auth_admin_keep_always <- (action, result)"

    I was able to access the partition just fine from Ubuntu before I switched over to Crunchbang. And it boots into Windows no problem. Any thoughts?

    Posted 1 year ago #

  4. snowpine
    Member
    22 posts

    Update: I now have /dev/sda1 mounted. I am completely baffled how this is possible. I opened the Storage Device Manager and it did not appear. Then I opened Gparted and got the error message in my last post. Then, I opened Storage Device Manager and there it was! It said the device has not yet been configured, so I mounted it to /media/sda1 without any problem. I am going to reboot and see what happens, fingers crossed!

    Update: Well this is very weird. I rebooted. The partition is gone from /media/sda1. When I open Storage Device Manager, it sees /dev/sda1, but it wants to mount it as /media/sdb1! This is especially strange, as I have a different device (USB drive) already called sdb. I'm lost... in Ubuntu all of my other partitions were easy to find in Nautilus. :-(

    Posted 1 year ago #

  5. snowpine
    Member
    22 posts

    No suggestions anyone? I'm considering switching back to the gnome volume manager, because it worked well, but I would really prefer to keep using thunar if possible. Are other Crunchbang users able to access their Windows partitions?

    Posted 1 year ago #

  6. madcrow
    Member
    37 posts

    Hello,

    Try to mount manually your win partition.

    mkdir /media/win
    mount /dev/sda1 /media/win

    If it works, add this at your /etc/fstab. Be careful with fstab, do a copy....

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    #! 8.04.02, Linux Mint XFCE CE Elyssa, ToutouLinux 3.01.4, Slitaz ( a very small linux )
    Posted 1 year ago #

  7. snowpine
    Member
    22 posts

    Thanks Madcrow, the mount was successful. What exactly do I need to add to /etc/fstab to make the change permanent? It wasn't clear from your post, and I don't want to mess anything up...

    Posted 1 year ago #

  8. madcrow
    Member
    37 posts

    Hi,

    Can you copy the result of:
    cat /etc/fstab

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    #! 8.04.02, Linux Mint XFCE CE Elyssa, ToutouLinux 3.01.4, Slitaz ( a very small linux )
    Posted 1 year ago #

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