Reply #5: let me try again

[Syrinx]

At a command prompt, type:

sudo fdisk -l

That should list your partitions. Do you see one that is listed as "NTFS?" That's your windows partition. Note the name of the device. That's the field in the first column. It will look something like "/dev/sda1."

Decide where you want to access Windows in your linux filesystem. "/media/windows" might be okay to use. Whatever location you choose, make sure such a directory exists.

Then fire up a text editor, and load up "/etc/fstab." Add a line like the following:

/dev/sda1 /media/windows ntfs users,auto,rw,nodev,exec,nosuid 0 0

Change "/dev/sda1" to whichever device name you determined earlier was your windows partition. Replace "/media/windows" with the filesystem location where you wish to access your windows data.

If you want to only read from the windows partition, change "rw" to "ro."

Next time you boot up into Linux, your, well your daughter's Windows files should be available under "/media/windows," or whatever.

To test it without rebooting, issue the "mount" command, with your mount-point, eg. /media/windows, as your only argument.

I hope I got that right. Good luck. :hi: