I am booting into Linux Mint via a USB Flash drive, so Linux is NOT installed on this computer. However, I am curious to see if I can mount the Windows hard drive on this computer (the only hard drive on it) from Linux Mint this way since Linux isn’t actually installed. Thanks in advance for your help!
Flash Drive, Computers & Internet
May 16th, 2011 on 12:46 am
Interesting question, I don`t know the answer, but wonder if it might be possible.
How do you get on with Linux, by the way, I bought a used computer with it installed a couple of years ago,couldn`t get to grips with it so I uninstalled it and installed XP.
May 16th, 2011 on 12:46 am
Are you running it virtually? If you’re booting into the flash drive then it is installed to there. Look through the repositories for the NTFS comparability stuff.
May 16th, 2011 on 12:46 am
ntfs and linux are kind of complicated. at most you will be able to only view the windows parition on a ntfs drive within linux. you might have to unmount it and remount it again using the mount command in the terminal, but you also might have to view the start script and input the command in there so when it boots up it automounts it.
May 16th, 2011 on 12:46 am
yes you can and you can see every thing in it . i have done it many times .i am right now on my dual boot pc with XP/ Ubuntu and if i want i can boot with a usb that has super ubuntu on it and see both partitions .
May 16th, 2011 on 12:46 am
Yes look it up on youtube
you can read from it all day, I wouldn’t try and write to it though, unless your useing clam or avg or avira to erase a virus infection
May 16th, 2011 on 12:46 am
Yeah, your running it from a flash drive the like a live CD. I’ve done that to access system files that Windows would not let me get to. Just go to Computer, and mount the drive.
May 16th, 2011 on 12:46 am
yes you can mount them. and backup copy and files on ur windows partition. if your using ubuntu / linuxmint it should do it easily. they are under My computer icon.
May 16th, 2011 on 12:46 am
If you go to the mnt directory, it should show there and you click on it to mount the partition. I’m not sure if you are asking how or whether it can be done.