I should not but in here , but surely, if you want your WinXP partition 
recognised in LM(X.X) then all you neet to do is create a directory
in /mnt , call it anything you like,eg W-XP, and then go to /etc/fstab
and write a stanza to mount it at boot time.

John

On Wednesday 10 April 2002 12:22, you wrote:
> I did that.
> Okay, (I have to do this from Memory because i haven't got Linux booted
> up).
>
> BUT you go to Control Center, then.....boot.
> Then you click on something in there, and it will have a variety of
> options, and it will say default or boot up or something.
>
> Then you have a selection of the different boot up modes you can do.
> You select the one that is selected as default (it will have (default) next
> to it) and select properties, and unselect the thing that makes it be
> default.
>
> THEN you select Windows (on my system it is called NT) and select
> properties and check the default button.
>
> and then press okay, and apply and all sorts of confirmation buttons.
>
> Hope this helps, if it doesn't I'm sure ANYONE can provide a more thorough
> description.
>
> John
>
> From: Greg Smitih <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >Subject: Re: [newbie] How to read and write to a Win XP partition
> >Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 07:05:24 -0400
> >
> >Sorry for butting in here, but I was wondering how you get your XP
> >partition
> >to mount automatically.  I have to manually mount it every time I start up
> >Linux.
> >
> >On Wednesday 10 April 2002 04:49 am, you wrote:
> > > aybe try to change as root the file permissions of the /mnt/windows
> > > partition to 777 (chmod 777 /mnt/windows)
> > >
> > > Hope this helps
> > >
> > > Antonio
> > >
> > > ----- Mensaje Original -----
> > > Remitente: luca braglia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Fecha: Mi�rcoles, Abril 10, 2002 10:31 am
> > > Asunto: [newbie] How to read and write to a Win XP partition
> > >
> > > > Hi All,
> > > >
> > > > I have Window$ XP installed on sda1 and Mandrake 8.2 on sdb1
> > > > how can I mount manually the Window$ partition to enable
> > > > writing on the XP partition ?
> > > > I tried to mount the normal way but I can only read.
> > > > On the message log I get this :
> > > >
> > > > Warning! NTFS volume version is Win2k+: Mounting read only
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Thanks in advance
> > > >
> > > > Luca
> >
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