Windows Partition

[compsci]

Hi to all
I have just installed Fedora Core 2 in my PC. While installation Fedora can not detect the Windows partition. Even when the installation finished and i reboot the machine, the grub boot loader doesnt display windows in the menu. It only display Fedora Core. So how can i run Windows operating system. All my important files are there. Plz help me. Another issue is that i have two buttons mouse, it didnt detect that and the mouse is not working, so how to configure the mouse.

[cgriffin]

You need to provide more info for people to help you.

When you say "run Windows operating system" I assume you are trying to read data from your windows partition. You can't run windows software in Linux -- at least not without something the the WINE emulator, or a third party tool like win4lin or vmware.

Assuming you are talking about mounting your windows partition, you didn't say what version of windows you are running or what filesystem your windows partition is (fat32 vs. ntfs). Linux can read/write to fat32 natively. Linux can read ntfs with an add-on, but ntfs write support is very flakey and not supported.

Here is a howto on how to add ntfs read support to FC2:

http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/sho...&threadid=2229

Either way, you'll need to create a directory in your /mnt such as /mnt/windows and then edit your fstab to mount the windows partition at bootup. There are lots of posts on how to do this.

As for your mouse, you didn't say if its was a ps/2 or usb mouse, or what type of mouse. Also, post the contents of your fstab file. The answer will probaby be to edit that. I assume you already tried to reconfigure the mouse with the gui mouse configuration tool?

[compsci]

I have PS/2 mouse.
I have Windows 2000 with FAT32. I ment that i can not boot windows 2000 when the machine started i have only one option that is Fedora. Thank you for your replay.

[wolveso]

if you could post the contents of /etc/grub.conf here, then we can have a look at what's going on when you boot your machine

[cgriffin]

For the mouse, try this:

http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/sho...&threadid=2228

http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/sho...&threadid=2404

For the booting issue, does Windows show up in Grub at all (the Fedora boot menu)? If not, you'll need to edit the grub file to add an entry for Windows.

Here is some info on Grub:

http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/sho...=&threadid=975

That particular post is about adding Grub to the MBR if you forgot to do it during install (i.e. in order to be able to boot into Fedora) but the principals are similar. Your grub file probably only has an entry for Fedora and none for Windows. Read thru that post and then add an entry in your grub for windows and reboot and that may do it.

You may want to post the contents of your grub file here so others can look at it and may be able to help you edit it.