I have windows xp and Kubuntu breezy 5.10 installed on my dell laptop inspiron 8600. Is there anyway that I can access files in my windows xp partition and move some to kubuntu?
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Re: Dual boot system question
yes you can mount your windows xp partitions in kubuntu, but you can move you files only if you have FAT/FAT32 partitions in windowsXP, linux doesn't fully support RW mode for NTFS partitions, you can copy your files to kubuntu though. If you want help how to mount a partition, you can check the man page of mount. type man mount 5. If you need help mounting your partitions, post the output of sudo fdisk -l && cat /etc/fstab.cheers!
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Re: Dual boot system question
You have to mount windows partition.
mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/win
where hda1 is windows partition (it may be on a different partition, like hda2 or hdb etc.)
Then cd into /mnt/win. Check your /mnt directory, maybe that partition is mounted already.
If you want to mount some partitions on system boot automatically change /etc/fstab file, but you have to know what you are doing. See man pages for mount and fstab.
What is more, if you use ntfs, you will be able only to read. There are captive drivers for writing to ntfs partitions but it's very slow.
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Re: Dual boot system question
Originally posted by whoiam55yes you can mount your windows xp partitions in kubuntu, but you can move you files only if you have FAT/FAT32 partitions in windowsXP, linux doesn't fully support RW mode for NTFS partitions,
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http://www.ubuntuguide.org/#windows
Just change all the gedit references to kwrite
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Re: Dual boot system question
Originally posted by aysiu
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Re: Dual boot system question
Originally posted by KroesssOkay, and what does aysiu's raplacement from gedit to kwrite do?Code:sudo gedit /etc/fstab
Code:sudo kwrite /etc/fstab
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