I had the exact same issue on my comp with XP, and I read up on it a bit... For starters, the others offered useful comments. However, I read that Microsoft made some changes to the NTFS used in XP since its rendition in Win2k. So what you are dealing with is an NTFS v2.0 of sorts... which is sadly not easily mountable in linux, while the first NTFS (v1 if you will), is mountable. This is why you received the error that said "wrong fs type."
I fixed this problem when I reinstalled windows a month ago by simply formatting my windows drive with FAT32 instead of NTFS. You lose the special NTFS security provisions, but you can easily read/write to the partition in linux. So since you just installed winXP, you might want to reinstall it, putting it on a FAT32 partition instead of NTFS. -- Nathan -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Scott Felton Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 7:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Mounting my NTFS partition I'm new to Mandrake and fairly new to Linux (ran Slackware for a few months back around 3.5-4.0 on a P166) Now I have a new machine, 1.3g celeron, 384m RAM and two 40g hard drives. I have been installing and toying with many distros but Mandrake is the first that has my interest for more than a day or two. I have Windows XP on the first hard drive (hda) that came with the computer. How do (can?) I mount that drive just in case I want to get something off it to look at from here in Linux? I created a "/windows" directory (as root) and tried......... ...
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