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I'm using fedora core 1 and most of the files that I need to work with are in
windows xp. How do I access this fiels from fedora core? Windows is using ntfs file system. :?:

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Short summary and up-to-date guidance (adds clarity to the 2005 thread)

Back when this thread was posted, the Linux NTFS support you encountered was typical: the in‑kernel NTFS driver provided reliable read access but only very limited, experimental write capability — which is why KDiskFree/GUIs often didn’t show NTFS partitions for ordinary mounts. and correctly reflected that historical state of support. (docs.kernel.org)

What to use today (safer, practical path)
For reliable read/write access use the FUSE-based NTFS‑3G implementation — it became the widely packaged, stable solution after this thread was written and is the recommended option on most distributions. NTFS‑3G includes utilities (for example, ntfsfix) that can clear the “dirty” flag and repair minor inconsistencies, but ntfsfix is not a replacement for Windows’ chkdsk. If you only need to copy files out, mount read‑only first, copy your data to a safe location, then enable write access only after confirming the volume is healthy. (github.com)

Notes for very old systems and data safety
If you’re still on an ancient release like Fedora Core 1 and can’t install packages there, boot a modern live image (current Fedora/Ubuntu) to access the NTFS partition — recent distributions include NTFS support. Newer kernels also contain an in‑kernel NTFS driver (ntfs3, merged in Linux 5.15), but for mission‑critical data prefer the mature ntfs‑3g userspace driver or make a full backup before trying any write operations. Always back up before enabling writes to NTFS from Linux. (kernel.org)

Acknowledgement: this expands on the original tips from , , and by giving a concise, modern-safe route for recovering and working with NTFS data.

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Member Avatar for Comatose

You can READ the files, but I'm pretty darn sure you can't delete or over-write, or anything like that to the files. But You make sure the hard drive is in the computer, (as a slave or something) and boot to fedora. Then you mount the NTFS partion (With mount) and give it the file system time. Even if it's the same hard drive, the concept is the same... you mount the partition that has the NTFS file system on it... but you can only read (copy from, etc) the NTFS file system. If it were FAT or FAT32... You could Modify It, but NTFS is read only.

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Actually, there is an experimental NTFS module that allows writes that's been out for awhile. You have to do a recompile of the kernel, but it's been there since 2.4.something...

...or you could burn the files to a CD or copy them to a USB pendrive ...

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I use KDiskFree to show and mount the partitions in my computer but the ntfs file system partitions do not appear there. How can I make them accessible for mounting.
Anybody know the instructions?

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I'm pretty certain that you'll to mount those manually at a prompt....
I'm not familiar with YOUR particular system, so, it could be any number of device names. Commonly, Partitions are categorized as hda1, hda2, etc. Also, hdb1, hdb2, etc. The particularities depend on your system and version. Also, the mount command recieves options in order to determine what type of partition to load. I believe it's -t

so it might be something like: mount -t ntfs /dev/hda2 /mnt/hd

The /mnt/hd is the directory in which to mount the partition. Not sure if this is helpful, but there you have it. Don't forget, you can do a: man mount

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I use MEPIS Linux...which automounts every single drive to my desktop :P

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