Help: Mounting New Hard Disk

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helo buddies i got new problem arise

I have a hard disk formatted in fat32 format i want to mount it

plz help me.

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Excellent graphical guide here.

If you need further help, then run this command as root user and post output:

fdisk -l

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Thanks a lot that was a great help
I really love this forum

Thanks a LOoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooot rotfl!

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Greeaaat!!!

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New Problem Arises

When I tried copying data from my old hard disk to new one

the paste option doenot comes there

One more thing the new hard disk is formatted with NTFS not FAT

Plz help me …:frowning:

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More reading for you:

HowTo Mount NTFS Filesystem Partition Read Write Access in openSUSE 10, 11

FYI, there are a lot of threads you can search here discussing the same topic.

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i used the page u gave me
but it didn’t help
i even used the root log in and the command chmod and chown but still it didn’t work
i also tried logging into the root account and change permission thru gui
now the folder shows a lock sign, after i changed ma filesystem from NTFS to FAT
but it still didn’t work
plzzzzz hlppppppppppp:’(

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This was not used to be a inactive forum…

Its Long time i m not getting any response… :frowning:

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rajnostradamus1 wrote:
> This was not used to be a inactive forum…
>
> Its Long time i m not getting any response… :frowning:

deano said: “there are a lot of threads you can search here
discussing the same topic.”

have you searched them and not found how to mount and copy to from a
NTFS hard drive?

and, NEVER ever log into the gui as root…EVER!!
read more on that here: http://tinyurl.com/6ry6yd

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DenverD (Linux Counter 282315) via NNTP, Thunderbird 2.0.0.14, KDE
3.5.7, SUSE Linux 10.3, 2.6.22.18-0.2-default #1 SMP i686 athlon

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I tried searching the forum but i didnt got any related to my specification

I did all the fstab stuffs of granting the permission

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> I did all the fstab stuffs of granting the permission

in a terminal type this and then enter

Code:

cat /etc/fstab

then, copy/paste back to this thread…

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DenverD (Linux Counter 282315) via NNTP, Thunderbird 2.0.0.14, KDE
3.5.7, SUSE Linux 10.3, 2.6.22.18-0.2-default #1 SMP i686 athlon

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Maybe post the output of the following command as well:

fdisk -l

(So we can see your partition layout)

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It would be nice to know what version you are using

Have you installed the ntfs-3g programs if not go into yast programs and type ntfs-3g in the search and install it.

Im not sure you need to reboot after doing this.

Next Is the new drive an external drive or internal?
(this is so that any commands you are given are directed at the correct drives.)

deano_ferrari
Re: Help: Mounting New Hard Disk
Maybe post the output of the following command as well:

fdisk -l

(So we can see your partition layout)
THIS IS A MUST BOTH DRIVES NEED TO BE CONNECTED.

Dave

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Does that website you linked about partitioning so you can swap files between linux and windows have to be done before a linux installation? Because I wipped this hardrive using BartPe, which totally wiped everything and did a clean install of Suse11. Is there anyway to do that now since i have linux installed?

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BenjaminG22 wrote:
> Does that website you linked about partitioning so you can swap files
> between linux and windows have to be done before a linux installation?
> Because I wipped this hardrive using BartPe, which totally wiped
> everything and did a clean install of Suse11. Is there anyway to do that
> now since i have linux installed?

i’m not at all sure what you are wanting to do…

let me guess you have one hard drive which contains only SUSE (what
version? running KDE3/4 or gnome?), and another hard drive which
contains only an M$ OS…and you want them both spinning at the same
time in the same machine so you can move data files (like music,
photos, etc) from the MS drive to the Linux drive is that correct?

is the M$ drive an external USB drive?

see, the answer you need depends on YOUR software, hardware,
situation and desires…we can’t answer until we know what you need
to do with what you have…

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DenverD (Linux Counter 282315) via NNTP, Thunderbird 2.0.0.14, KDE
3.5.7, SUSE Linux 10.3, 2.6.22.18-0.2-default #1 SMP i686 athlon

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/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_SAMSUNG_SP0802NS00JJ1GA101509-part3 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_SAMSUNG_SP0802NS00JJ1GA101509-part4 / ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_SAMSUNG_SP0802NS00JJ1GA101509-part7 /home ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 2
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_SAMSUNG_SP0802NS00JJ1GA101509-part1 /windows/C vfat users,gid=users,umask=0002,utf8=true 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_SAMSUNG_SP0802NS00JJ1GA101509-part5 /windows/D vfat users,gid=users,umask=0002,utf8=true 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_SAMSUNG_SP0802NS00JJ1GA101509-part6 /windows/E vfat users,gid=users,umask=0002,utf8=true 0 0
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
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_ST3500820AS_5QM1GADZ-part1 /windows/F ntfs-3g users,gid=users,fmask=133,dmask=022,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_ST3500820AS_5QM1GADZ-part5 /windows/I ntfs-3g users,gid=users,fmask=133,dmask=022,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_ST3500820AS_5QM1GADZ-part6 /windows/J ntfs-3g users,gid=users,fmask=133,dmask=022,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_ST3500820AS_5QM1GADZ-part7 /windows/K ntfs-3g users,gid=users,fmask=133,dmask=022,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0

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On my last XP Update I was hit with a bad update and it destroyed the FAT table on my C drive. Fortunately I had SuSe 10.3 on the other hard disk and was able to keep on line (online business computer) For a day or so I was able to see files on the ruined drive, then it vanished.

I work in IT and several other staff had the same problem. We enlisted the help of the local Uni and they were able to get some stuff of the drive by removing the platters. MS deny anything wrong and all our efforts seem hopeless to retrieve any data off the bad HDD. What little we get back is very garbled.

It may be time to give up and reformat the bad drive. The problem might not be Linux at all. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.

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Hi. I haven’t had to do this in a while but I think this might be what you are looking for.

from a console:

#su -
enter root password

List your drives to find your ntfs drive.
#fdisk -l

make a directory to mount for file copies.
#mkdir /mnt/ntfsdrv

since you only seem to need to copy the files, mounting Read Only (ro) should be okay. For the example, /dev/sdb1 will be the ntfs partition from the fdisk output.
#mount -t ntfs /dev/sdb1 /mnt/ntfsdrv

Then copy files as needed.
#cp -r /mnt/ntfsdrv/* /your/new/location

I think if you want to mount the file system Read Write (rw) you may need the ntfs-3g pkg installed:

#zypper se ntfs-3g
Reading installed packages…

S | Name | Summary | Type
–±--------±-----------------------------------------------------------±-------
i | ntfs-3g | Linux NTFS-3G userspace filesystem with full write support | package

Then the command to mount the partition rw would be something like:

#mount -t ntfs /dev/sdb1 /mnt/ntfsdrv -o rw

Hopefully this points you in the right direction. Take care!