i have red hat linux 7.0... i installed it on my pc and accidently may have formatted part or all of my windows xp and i need a list of commands that will show me what files are left on my computer... i am quite knowledgable with xp and file names so if you can direct me to be able to view the files in my E drive then that would be awsome!

list and either explination or brief on what it does helps allot... my computer has been a brick to me for about a month or 2 since this hapined so any help is appreciated and will be replied with a THANKS!

Hey there mate, sorry for the slow response, missed this one.

Hopefully you haven't messed up the partition table otherwise this is pretty much useless, but good luck

To mount your drive you must first find the drive label/path. To do so open terminal and type

This should give you an output such as
Look for the one thats HPFS/NTFS and that will be it (I have two NTFS partitions there but you will more than likely have just one). The first NTFS partition on my drive is my windows partition, take note of yours

Now you must create somewhere to mount it, I use something like /mnt/win to do this use the following command

Now you have a place to mount it we can mount it - yay, to mount it use the following command (Change the /dev/hda1 to your ntfs partition we looked for before)

You can now fire up your file browser to browse through the partition, I'm not sure what window manager you're using but I'm assuming it's gnome since that was default in red hat (if i recall) and it'll more than likely be nautilus file manager

Just as a warning, since RH7 is an old distro presumably running an older kernel, the NTFS code was bad and it tended to mess things up if you try and write to it, treat it as READ ONLY

Hope this helps - Leb

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I believe that in RH7, NTFS write support probably wasn't an option in the kernel. That's AT LEAST 4 or 5 years old and they only got marginal write support in the kernel about 2 years ago.

yea nothing yall suggested worked but its ok i got my xp back so thanks for trying guys!

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so mark as fixed i guess

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