Seeing other hard drives

[RichieV]

Hi All

Here is my setup

AMD 1800+ processor
Nvidia GeForce3 Ti500 graphics card, with fully working Nvidia drivers thanks to this forum
Sound Blaster Audigy sound card

and 2 hard drive as follows

Drive one is a 100GB Westen Digital which contains windows :D partitioned C = 30 GB and D = 60 GB ish and a Hitachi 10 GB hard drive which contains Fedora Core 2

I am unable to see the drives because they use the NTFS file system. I would like a place thay both windows and linux could share files, so my question is, if i use somthing like partition magic to change the file system on drive D: would Ferora be able to see it by default or would i need to make some changes in Fedora :)

Thanks for all you help

Rich

[jzke]

Yeh, I'm in the same position as you. Can't get my NTFS drive to mount, but want to know how I could... I vaguely remember when I had SuSE a while back I could get it working without changing the file system from NTFS... If only I could remeber :confused:

[bsoderror]

Rich

I f you change D: to vfat, linux will be able to use it safely as well as windows, reading and writing. Writing from linux to NTFS is still kinda rough around the edges, VFAT is fine though. You may have to "mount" in linux the newly formatted partition but that's no biggee. Just ask here howto if you haven't done it yet or get confused.

[pigpen]

http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/index.html

has prebuild rpms for fedora with ntfs read support only.
if you need write support, google for "captive ntfs".
good luck