On Tue, 2002-09-10 at 22:57, Sreekumar Kodakara wrote: > I have partioned my hard disk and have made my system dual boot with Win > Xp in one partion and RH 7.3 in another. I would like to read XP partition > from linux. I tried adding an entry in /etc/fstab with hpfs as the > filesystem type and it didnt work. Is there a way to read the Win XP > partion. Not sure if Linux can read WinXP partitions, but you should try mounting it as NTFS rather than HPFS. HPFS is the filesystem for OS/2, while NTFS is for WinNT and descendants. They were the same thing at some point, but that was a long time ago.. -- _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ ___ _ _ __ `desserts' spelled backward / \/ \(_)| ' // ._\ / - \(_)/ ./| ' /(__ is `stressed' \_||_/|_||_|_\\___/ \_-_/|_|\__\|_|_\ __) [ Mike Hicks | http://umn.edu/~hick0088/ | mailto:hick0088 at tc.umn.edu ] -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20020911/1cb8ed95/attachment.pgp