Hello,
Im a newbie, and installed SUSE 11 last week, im using dual boot with winxp sp2 / SUSE 11. I saw windows(in FileSystem) folder while observing SUSE, and later now i cant see the windows folder. I dont know how to bring it back. Kindly help me, to follow any steps, since im a newbie.
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The last time you booted windows did you have any issues logging out?
I Know of a few reports of dualbooting and if XP isnt properly shut down sometimes it causes issues in a dual boot.
Hello Tara,
I didnt find any issues while shutting down, or i may be careless in notcing that. Kindly let me know for any solutions.
Im switching from windows to SUSE, it slows me down.
Its also possible that something goofed with opensuse too, are you using any of the NTFS drivers in Suse?
I have no idea about suse tara, i use the defaults as it is with suse.
This is the FSTAB entries found in my system.
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD2500AAJS-_WD-WCARW6403550-part7 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD2500AAJS-_WD-WCARW6403550-part8 / ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD2500AAJS-_WD-WCARW6403550-part10 /home ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 2
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs noauto 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
Huh, its not in fsab… odd.
Try a reboot and see if you can boot into windows.
Boot out of windows and then switch to suse again.
I am juist checking if this repeats.
Its possible that Suse is not picking up on your NTFS (windows) drive at this point, but if it doesnt work after a reboot of both windows and suse you may need to install ntfs-config.
If it comes to that I will tell you what to do.
thans tara,
I wil try and let u know.
Yeh I am afraid that the only real assured way to test is to reboot, but its better to test it out then worry about it not working.
Hi tara,
I tried reboot, windows xp boots fine. but still suse does not show the windows folder in filesystem window.
alright, lets try to install the ntfs-config package.
To install it try here:
Software.openSUSE.org
just click the “one click install” button
The other NTFS stuff opensuse needs is preinstalled but there still might be something going on here.
I have a NTFS external drive that I use in both linux and windows and I had issues with it, those issues were fixed for me at least after installing the ntfs-config package.
Hello tara,
I installed ntfs-config,how can i get assured that its installed. is there any ways to contact through gmail/gchats so as to msg quickly.
If its installed it is installed, I would log out just in case and log back in, see if your windows drive is picked up.
It wont take a reboot, with any luck.
This wont be an app you will find in your menu’s but if lucky it will pick up your windows drive.
If that doesnt work I am not sure, its very strange issue if that is the case.
This is going nowhere. Since this is disk problem, please start Yast, System, Partitioner. You will be warned, click Continue.
Now you will see all harddisks, and the partitions on each one. Look for the partitions that do contain an NTFS file system, and do not have a mountpoint. Change the mountpoint of that one from nothing to /windows/C, OK, OK, OK, and you should be able to access the windows partition
It sounds to me like the drive isn’t mounted.
It was mounted and then the user logged out of SuSE. Now going back into SuSE the drive is no longer mounted.
Since it works fine booting into Windows, we know it is not a partition/drive problem so try mounting the drive again.
mount -t ntfs /dev/sda1 /mnt
(Of course replacing the /dev/sda1 with your partition specifics.)
once you have the drive successfully mounted, add the entry into fstab so it will mount automatically on boot.
/dev/hda1 /media/windows ntfs nls=utf8,umask=0222 0 0
Thanks a lot, Tara, Knur, Ninja.
It works for me i proceeded Knur steps and finally added to the local folder.
Thanks everyone for ur valued time.
Good, manually editing fsab was going to be my next suggestion but I am not too familiar with editing fsab.
Cheers ‘subscribeid’ !!!
@Taralkeda: if you’re not familiar with editing fstab, then, for your sake, don’t. In fstab there’s a bit more than just mounting. What needs to be done for a correct working fstab, is best be done from the Yast partitioner.
TIP: run the partitioner, for each partition choose Edit, fstab options, and enter something you’ll recognize in Volume Name. OK. OK. OK. In the future you will be able to recognize partitions by the labels you gave them.
Thanks for the tip, I never touch my fsab so thats why I dont know much about it.
I looked sat it a few times though, never edited thank goodness 