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Old 21-04-2006, 04:43 PM
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i am having a linux with dual boot to windows2000. if i boot to linux i cannot able to view the windows partition.how to mount the windows partition automatically with linux partitions.i installed windows 2000 in primary partition and linux in extended partition.

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Is it NTFS or FAT32 partition?
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i am using fat32 type of filesystem in windows.how to mount this filesystem in linux.

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Dear ramjimh

try fdisk -l /dev/hda find out fat32 partitaion, one more thing do not mount under /root mount somewhere else i.e /tmp .This is might help.

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Use mount command as follows:

Create mount dir:
Code:
mkdir -p /mnt/c
Mount partition:
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mount -t vfat /dev/hdX /mnt/c
Now goto directory /mnt/c
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cd /mnt/c
Replace /dev/hdX with actual your partition, to find out partition list type command:
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fdisk -l
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on my laptop i can do fdisk -l but on my school computer it doesnt work why and gives eror command not found ..how should i fix it
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you must be root user to run fdisk -l.
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i did logged in as root user and then tried fdisk...
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