drives not opening

[kekool]

i installed fedora 9 . i previously had windows xp and i dual booted it. i deleted a partition from a bunch of 5 partitions of the hard disc. and in that free space i installed the fedora. while inside fedora i tried to open the other hard drive partitions other than the one in which fedora is installed . It asked for root password and said it requires admin authentication . after i gave the password nothing happened . again when i tried to open another drive it didnot ask for password but it didnot open either . :(

PS : while doing the above i was not logged in as administrator.

[MSK61]

It depends on how you're trying to open your windows drives. Are you using a graphical file browser like konqueror in KDE or nautilus in gnome? I don't rely a lot on automatic mounting of these file browsers. I guess you have to try one of the following commands to better investigate your problem.
Create a directory(anywhere; it really doesn't make a difference). Now type the following command as the root user:
mount <drive device name> <newly created folder>
or you may use sudo with the previous command if you're used to using sudo as:
sudo mount <drive device name> <newly created folder>
The drive device name depends on the layout of your partitions; it may be /dev/sda1, /dev/sda2, ...etc. You may determine the device names for different partitions on your hard disks using the following command as root:
/sbin/fdisk -l
This will list all the partitions with their associated device labels.
Try mounting your windows drive this way from the command line. The mount command should produce no output at all if the mount could be performed successfully. Otherwise, you'll get an error message that may help diagnose your problem.
If the drive is mounted successfully, it should be available for browsing from both the command line and any graphical file browser.
Wishing you best of luck!