On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 8:14 AM, Steven Morrey <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a laptop running windows 7 and i decided to give natty narwhal a try. > I installed it using wubi which i found on the iso i downloaded. > Everything looks great but i would like to access my main windows 7 > partition. Oddly my recovery parition mounts automatically at boot, but i > cant seem to get at the main. > > I dont see an entry for it in fstab and when i do a simple mount /dev/sda1 > /media/windows > It complains that its already mounted at /root not a typo. > Figuring that seemed a bit strange i cd'd to the directory and there is > nothing to indicate the volume is there. So i go back to / and try to umount > it but it says the volume is in use. lsof says its in use by root. > Any ideas on what to try from here?
Sounds a lot like your linux install may have clobbered your windows partition, or at the very least, your windows partition is not the first partition. What does fstab -l /dev/sda show? /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
