On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 8:22 AM, Nicholas Leippe <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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?
Windows 7 generally creates a small partition at the beginning of the
disk that is not the main partition it runs from, so mounting the
first partition of the physical drive is probably not what you want.
Wubi is a method of installing Linux into a file on a Windows
partition rather than a real partition. I'm not really sure how it
works, as I've never had occasion to use it, but that may have
something to do with the weirdness. Maybe the virtual disk file is
being mapped in as sda, and the physical disk is something else?
--Levi
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