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by danerd 1 view

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hi, i have two hard drives,on c drive i am dual booting xp with mandriva 2008, my d drive is formatted in ntfs ( same as my c drive ), my d drive i use as storage, i had to recently reformat my d drive ( in ntfs )and put everything back on d drive using backup dvd disks, but now the mandriva linux does not recognize the d drive and i am no longer able to send data to the d drive like i used to do before.thanks in advance.

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by older mycroft

Maybe if you'd formatted it with Mandriva it would recognise it. (XP can always take ownership of a drive - dunno about Linux).

[i]Just a stab in the dark.[/i]

by danerd

hi, thank you for your reply, i formated the d drive with xp ( ntfs )

by peconet tietokoneet

When you mount the drive in Mandriva it should ask you which format you want, just select NTFS.
Hope all works out for you.

by danerd

hi thank you for your reply, i suspected that i would have to remount the d drive, here is the thing, i dont know how to remount the d drive and i dont want to make a mistake and wipe out the d drive, just exactly how would i remount the drive? thank you.

by fro_

Is your d drive a partition or a seperate hard drive?

by amoeba1

You would use the mount command. If it is a sata or scsi drive, the command would look like this:
mount /dev/sdx (x is the position, ie:first sata is a, second sata is b, etc)
For an IDE drive the command looks like this:
mount /dev/hdx (x is the position primary master=a primary slave=b secondary master=c secondary slave=d).

Hope this helps!

by danerd

hi amoeba, your solution works and has helped me out. many thanks--cheers--.

by danerd

hi peconet tietokoneet, i visited the site and it helped me out, i have managed to fix my probklem. thank you --cheers--

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