How is it I play my windows music in Ubuntu?

Question

I'm a Windows XP user trying to switch to Ubuntu linux for no other reason than to feed my geeky hunger. I don't really play any computer games, so my main concern is how am I supposed to access my gigs of music on my Windows folder from Ubuntu? I only have 2 hard drives (if possible to work on Windows hard drive then great), no jump drives or CDs. Thanks for whatever answers. :)

Answer 1

first what type of filesystem on these partitions



look first under places > removable media

if they are there then click on it

it will be mounted to system when you do that

the linux system needs any driver to be attached (mounted ) to it's tree in order to deal with it



if they are not there

then open the terminal (accessories > terminal )

which is a shell emulator (command line interface )

then make the points you want to attach the filesystem to it

"sudo mkdir /media/My1"

where My1 is the name of the mount point to which you will attach your partition

be careful that linux is case sensitive

My_Folder is not thw same as my_folder

then

"sudo mount -t [ntfs,vfat] /dev/sd[a,b..1,2,3..] /media/My1"

you have to choose the filesystem type (vfat or ntfs )

which hard drive sda or sdb

which partition 1,2,3...

if you got an error and the filesystem type is right it will be mostly because of unclean shutdown

if you don't know the dev available

type

"ls /dev/ | grep sd"



good luck

Answer 2

When you dual boot with Ubuntu there will be a drive listed in the 'Places' menu. It will be called '38GB Media' if your windows partition is 38 GB.

You must dual boot to have this option. It won't show up if you use wubi.



You need not use a second hard drive and you may have to mount the second HDD if your windows partition is on a separate HDD.



Either way you can use a program called 'samba' to make a link between the 2 partitions. To do this you must mount the windows partition. You may have to go up one (ie open parent folder) so that you can see the '38GB Media' or if you have renamed it then whatever. But you need to right click on it. Go to 'Properties' and then to the 'Share' tab. Check the first box = 'share this folder' and it will start to install samba. (which I now have even though I don't need it! - it then asks you to restart your machine (which I will need to do so I can remove 'samba' lol))



Yeah, so if you don't get automatic access. Mount the windows drive and click properties etc.

Now mounting the windows drive!! You probably won't need to - I never - but then mine is on the same drive.

When you install Ubuntu you will have to be aware of the name for the windows partition so remember its name. It will be 'sda1' or 'hda1' because it was there first.

In fact here is the official documentation from ubuntu



https://help.ubuntu.com/9.04/switching/index.html



email me if you need to.

Answer 3

hay its very simple. when u install the Ubuntu/ run the live cd the windows partition automatically loads by default. if not loaded then you have to mount the partition. the mount command is mount /dev/sda? /mnt/drivename.

/dev is the place where all the devices were installed. sda is for sata hard disk and sda for ide hard disks.

for more details man mount in the command promt/kernel.

Answer 4

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