is there anyway to move files from your a windows partition to a linux one?
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is there anyway to move files from your a windows partition to a linux one?
ftp?
Directly connect the two and linux should read the file system.
What exactly are you trying to do. :confused: :2pick:
you can use the mount command to mount the windows partition (/dev/hdaX) to /windrive or something (which is what I did). At any rate, you can transfer the files from partition to partition. I was using Caldera OpenLinux 2.2.
how whould i do that(i'm new to linux....)
What format is your Windows partition in? I hope its FAT/32, as from what I've read, the NTFS support under Linux is rather sketchy, as M$ refuses to release the source to NTFS, making the writing of a driver for it to be pretty much trial and error...
I don't know what Linux your using, but here is the document I used when I was setting up my Win98 partition to be mounted on boot..
Well, you'd figure out which partition windows was on by using (as root)Quote:
Originally posted by guerrillase7en
how whould i do that(i'm new to linux....)
That should print out the list of all your partitions. You'll be able to identify your Win partition as vFAT, FAT, or NTFS (if you're dual booting WinNT/2k/XP and linux). If it's an NTFS partition, follow Matty's advice and check out that site, otherwise do the following (as root):Code:[root@comp /]# fdisk -l
Note that if the partition you are trying to mount shows up as like, /dev/hda5 or something similar, you'll have to adjust the mount command to suit.Code:[root@comp /]# mkdir /mnt/win1
[root@comp /]# mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/win1
Once you have it mounted, you just cd into /mnt/win1 and that's the root of the partition. So if /dev/hda1 is your only windows partition, then /mnt/win1 is the same as c:\ under Windows.
If you want it persistent, then follow the instructions on the site that Matty gave out.
thank you so much:) didn't want to re d/l all my movies/music