Dual boot pc how to access from Windows to the files into Ubuntu partition

On windows sys just share the folder

than on ubuntu sys go to places, than, network you will be able to see the computers in ur network just click the particular sys name on which u have started file sharing

thats all

Should of added this....Its a dual OS loaded computer Windows/Ubuntu...I am trying to access my files from the windows side of the computer.

You will find your Windows XP OS Partition on " Places " menu,
just click (two times) the Partitions here, and search for your files, you can open, edit, move, delete, etc.

You can copy Ubuntu side files to Windows Partitions too.

There are some software for Windows to get access to ext3 partitions...

http://www.diskinternals.com/linux-reader/

here more detailed list:

http://tombuntu.com/index.php/2008/03/19/four-applications-for-accessing-ext3-partitions-from-windows/

Hope this helps

How do i get my Windows XP OS Partition viewable on my places menu.

If your NTFS partitions have no errors in it usually they are already listed in the Places list...

Hope this helps

not really, is there a peace of software that I need?

Please force the hard disk check booting and using Windows.
You will need to restart Windows twice to perform fully hard disk check.
Then reboot to Ubuntu again and check if the partitions are listed.

Hope this helps.

The partitions in "Places" are not identified as you know them in Windows, look for "local disk" or "xx.x GB media" or any such thing that has an icon that looks like a book.

Maybe get samba-client as it will drag in the dependencies you need although they are usually already there. Look up samba in Synaptic Package Manager to get an idea. samba-client is really for reading Windows partitions and stuff over a lan-network so it's waaay more than you need but it's quite small and easy. Try going up to the top task-bar and click on

System - Administration - Synaptic is near the end

Good luck and regards from
Tom :)

If you are still having trouble with this then please post it as a new question. Only the most recent questions tend to get looked at so posting/reposting a question just before america arrives online after work/school gives the best chance of getting a good few answers.
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+addquestion

If the problem has been resolved then please follow the link to the forum thread and mark it as Solved.

Good luck and many regards from
Tom :)

Before you can Use it, you need to Mount It

When you install Linux on a system with an existing operating system like Microsoft Windows™ it is easy to make those files and directories available under Linux. Often installations of Linux even auto-mount certain things like floppy drives, cd-roms, etc. for you. However, it is often common for your Windows disk/partition not to be automatically mounted for use.

To be able to get access to your Windows drive/partition under Linux you will need to perform two steps.

open terminal copy and paste the commands.

1) Create a directory under Linux that will link to your Windows drive/partition
at the prompt type (only do this once): mkdir /mnt/win

2) Then mount your Windows drive and link it to this new directory under Linux at the prompt type exactly:
mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/win

NOTE: If you are using Windows NT, 2000, 2003, or XP you need to instead use this command:
mount -t ntfs /dev/hda1 /mnt/win

HOWEVER, NOTICE that for those mounting a Windows NT File System it is possible to corrupt the NTFS when writing to it from Linux. Therefore most of the time the mount will only mount the Windows drive as read only!

3) Now try changing directories to your Windows drive/partition by typing
at the prompt: cd /mnt/win and then typing: ls -all

Notice that the actual disk or partition information in this example is /dev/hda1. This is usually the case if you have installed Linux onto a system with existing Windows. The hda1 refers to the first partition of your master (1st) hard drive. However, in some cases you may be using a system where Linux is on the hda1 and your Windows drive is actually something different. If you have an error, check what drives and partitions are already mounted by simply typing the command: mount

If you get the Error Message "Filesystem Unsupported" your Linux installation may not have included the needed NTFS (NT, Win 2000, WinXP) driver. This requires either a reinstall or Kernel compile.

David
in TN

David :)

Good one but there are a few things worth noting nowadays. Things have moved on a little.

1. to make things easier for end-users that might not know whether they have a sata drive or an old style ide one all the previously named hda, hdb, hdc and so on are now called sda, sdb, sdc. Ubuntu magically takes care of the differences "behind the scenes". If you use a version of linux that uses the old style and find your Windows partition is called hda1 and then switch to Ubuntu or any of the other newer styled ones then the partition would be sda1 in the new one.

2. Generally we do not need to recompile anything anymore for basic stuff like this. Just make sure you have installed "ntfs-3g" & "ntfsprogs" bth of which are normally installed by default.

3. The mount points are usually created automatically and the Windows partition or as they call it "drive" should automatically appear in the "Places" menu under some unhelpful name like "85.9 GB Media". I usually have to click on a few of these before finding the typical kludgy Windows folder structure such as "Users and Documents" or something like that. Even after finding the Windows drive it takes a while to navigate through to the familiar "My Documents" which might mysteriously be named "Stig Documents" or something like that (thx MicroSquish for making this difficult)

If you can get to a command-line and type in

sudo fdisk -l

where " -l" is a lower-case " -L" then that should show you all the partitions on all the drives on your machine and will show the right addresses for whichever version of linux you are using. The output of this command will also show you what format each partition is in. Usually linux will be in "ext3" or "ext4" and Windows usually in "ntfs" or perhaps "fat16" (for usb sticks and camera cards), something like that.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UsingTheTerminal#Starting%20a%20Terminal

Final point is that this question is ancient now and if it hasn't been sorted already then almost no-one else is going to read or add to this now. It is usually best to repost a question within a couple of days, perhaps a week if you don't get a good answer as there are always new people looking at new questions
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+addquestion
and perhaps try posing on a couple of other linux forums at the same time, such as
http://www.linuxquestions.org
Please if you get a good answer then post the link to the answer everywhere else that you asked the question to help other people in the future looking for an answer to the same problem, if that happens.

Errr, finally David, superb to see an excellent answer that gave us something that hadn't been covered by any of the previous answers! Many regards and i for one appreciate learning a different way of approaching the question :)
Many thanks and regards from
Tom :)

Err just to clarify that David's answer of "force mounting" the Windows partition is definitely worth exploring. I wish we had that answer a long time ago but at least it's here for next time.

Also although it's now incredibly rare for Windows to get broken by saving stuff to a Windows partition from linux it can apparently happen. Usually the culprit is a web page with a very long name = once you rename the folder and document to something a lot shorter Windows can cope again. Linux can handle very much longer filenames and web-pages like to make their names long and complex needlessly

Good luck and regards again from
Tom :)

Hi again

Please stop editing the question. Many of the answers now look slightly absurd which is really very unhelpful to anyone searching through the "answered questions database" to see if any previous answers work for them.

Please re-post a new question using this link
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/yelp/+addquestion

The question at the moment is a Windows question for Windows technical staff to answer. At the moment you are asking how to boot into Windows and then read data you have stored on the Ubuntu side of the dual boot. Typically MicroSquish try to make this difficult in an effort to force you to use Windows. Personally i find it backfires on them because i find it easier to read many different formats in linux so i stick with linux. Windows can only read half the stuff i need to access. So, i recommend you don't even try to boot into Windows ever again, except perhaps to play a couple of games.

Your current qestion about how to read Ubuntu stuff when you are in Windows is best answered by this answer from Marcobra
"
marcobra (Marco Braida) said on 2009-02-15:

There are some software for Windows to get access to ext3 partitions...

http://www.diskinternals.com/linux-reader/

here more detailed list:

http://tombuntu.com/index.php/2008/03/19/four-applications-for-accessing-ext3-partitions-from-windows/

Hope this helps
"

However, i have to point out that i dont think these are officially approved by either MicroSquish nor by Ubuntu. MicroSquish put a lot of effort into trying to make sure that theirside of the system breaks if you try to do things like this. Fortunately they are just as skilfull as ever and so it might work but why risk it?

Stick to Ubuntu, its safer, more secure, faster, lighter on resources and does more better and with less cost to you in terms of cash and time.

I have a bad feeling that you may have installed Ubuntu inside Windows using the Wubi install which neatly avoids many of the advantages of using a linux system as it depends on so many Windows systems, such as using their boot-loader and partitioning system, both of which are often broken by simple viruses.

During boot-up you should get to a screen with many options for booting into Ubunt and other choices such as "Memtest" (dont actually run this unless you need to and if so then leave it to run overnight, it takes ages). If you do get all these different options then Ubuntu is installed properly.

If, however, during bootup you only get 1 option for booting into Windows and only 1 choice for booting into Ubuntu then you have installed Ubuntu using the Wubi which is only meant as a quick demo = it is not meant for long-term use. In this case you need to move the Wubi install onto a proper partition. See this guide part 8 of section 8
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WubiGuide

Good luck and regards from
Tom :)

Hi, many apologies for my previous answer.

First please can you tell us if you have installed Ubuntu using the Wubi? If you have then please "migrate it" using part 8 of section 8 of this guide
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WubiGuide

If you do not know then please give us an approximate list of the options you get when you switch on the machine and get the choices between Windows and Ubuntu.

Thanks and regards from
Tom :