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i have just come back to Mandrake flavours and am a bit rusty, i hope this is simple.
I have a couple of mirrored ntfs partitions that i would like to use with my mageia installation, how do i mount them without losing the files on them?

Thanks in advance.

What do you mean by mirrored?

Apart from that, you mount them as any other partition. Best via diskdrake: http://doc.mageia.org/mcc/3/en/content/drakdisk.html
If you had them connected during installation they should have been automatically inserted into /etc/fstab, though.

one was plugged in during install one was not, i was not expecting to retain the mirroring (done with win 8) but neither have auto mounted, i will have a read of your link tomorrow thank you doktor5000

doktor5000 wrote:If you had them connected during installation they should have been automatically inserted into /etc/fstab, though.

Are you sure as I've never seen that happen?

Ken-Bergen wrote:

doktor5000 wrote:If you had them connected during installation they should have been automatically inserted into /etc/fstab, though.

Are you sure as I've never seen that happen?

Yep, all internal windows partitions will be added by the installer to /etc/fstab, usually as /media/win_c, /media/win_d and so on.

@peril66:
Are those on internal drives or external removable media? If the latter, simply plug them and they should appear in your file manager.
For internal partitions basically the same applies, but you may need to look at viewtopic.php?f=41&t=5148

doktor5000 wrote:Yep, all internal windows partitions will be added by the installer to /etc/fstab, usually as /media/win_c, /media/win_d and so on.

Okay, that explains why I don't remember as I haven't had an internal windows partition in about ten years.

realised after i shutdown yesterday they where probably unplugged during instal, sorry. and thank you for your replies.

Don't forget to mark this topic [SOLVED].

Solved!

Solved how exactly?

Please don't forget to mark the thread accordingly by editing the topic of the first post and prefix it by [SOLVED], thanks