changing boot options in linux

[Rahim]

^What code? I hope you have installed ntfs-3g and ntfs-config packages.
Post the contents of /etc/fstab file here.
Open a terminal and enter

cat /etc/fstab

There should an entry for ntfs drives(your windows partition) Mine is

/dev/sda1 /media/winxp ntfs-3g defaults 0 0

Have you installed Windows in the first partition?

Whats the error? Open a terminal and become root by entering this command

su

and give the root password and press enter (the password wont be highlighted)
Then enter

 mount -a[.code] This will give  the error whether the mount point is not there or ntfs-3g is an unknown format etc.

 

[confused!!]

Bhains ki aankh..It automatically got corrected...Now I am able to access my windows drives... I guess my problem was that windows did not shut down properly. So my drives were not accessible. Now when it got properly shut down, its now up and running again..

Whatever thanks for the quick reply

 

[Rahim]

^Mereko gussa aa raha hai!!

You could use force option in /etc/fstab file to mount ntfs partitions even if Windows is not shutdown properly. But many advise against it though.

 

[khattam_]

^Mereko gussa aa raha hai!!

You could use force option in /etc/fstab file to mount ntfs partitions even if Windows is not shutdown properly. But many advise against it though.

yes.. if you have hibernated Windows and mount a drive and make changes, the changes may not get reflected or your files might be corrupted when you start windows.. beware... so use force mount manually only and only when you are sure that you have not hibernated or using for read only...

 

[stellarbpo]

Thanks for the information.This is really useful.