I'm currently running PC/OS live from CD. I cannot locate my hard drive partitions. Is it possible to mount them as READ-WRITE during a live session? If yes, what are the steps?
Thanks.

What are the partition formats?

What are the partition formats?

As far as I understand, there are two partitions on the hard drive of this PC, both formatted as NTFS.
howagood

The NTFS configuration tool under the system submenu.

howagood wrote:

What are the partition formats?

As far as I understand, there are two partitions on the hard drive of this PC, both formatted as NTFS.
howagood

OK, that seems to deal with NTFS (tho' it doesn't mention how to mount them)...

For the rest of us ... what about FAT/FAT32 etc etc ?

And... why on earth aren't all HDD detected and mounted at startup?
(Surely that is what the majority of people would want......)
If there really is a good reason why this shouldn't be done, then why not first provide a simple prompt to the user asking whether it should be done (default No ..if you must, ... and with the usual option to... 'not ask this question again...')
and then proceed to automount if so requested?
....It just seems so...... obvious ????

Barry

Mounting the other NTFS drive:

These instructions are really for PC/OS Open64wstation but should be okay for what you are asking:

PC/OS (menu Start button) > System > NTFS Configuration Tool.
A window appears asking for your password as authorization.
Another window opens showing the NTFS drive or partition discovered.
To get this to work click directly onto the text "<Click here to set mount point>".
This then turns into a text entry point, and it wants a name to call the drive that it has discovered.

* You see the mount point that it is asking for is defined by giving it a name (not a drive path as you might think). Perhaps it would have been better to have put <Click on this text to enter name> and then we would all understand it, but technically in computer jargon it's a mount point.

After typing in a name to call your other hard drive, click to tick the Add box.
You should now be able to click the Apply button.
Another window appears to ask if it should Enable write support. Tick both boxes to be able to write to the drive.
Then click the OK button.

* This doesn't mean that the drive will now magically appear on the file manager. Yes, it's sad that the Gimp file manager appears to be superior to the System file manager. Next you need to find the location of the folder that now represents the hard drive that you want to access. The normal location is:
File System > media > "the name" that you gave the drive appears on a folder.

Select the folder, and click on the menu File > Send To, and select 'Side Pane (Create Shortcut)'.
The folder that represents the hard drive will now appear in the left pane and can be double clicked for access.

* If you run into authorization problems you may have to change these with:
PC/OS > System > Authorizations.
Move the right edge of the left pane to the right, so you can read more of the text.
Move the right edge of the window more to the right to make the window itself wider.
(Both done by hovering the mouse over the edge to be moved).
In the 'storage' section select 'Mount file systems from internal drives'.
Click the Edit button and using the drop down menus select better permissions ('Yes' for example).

In general I'm thinking that the NTFS Configuration Tool probably corrects authorizations at the same time as it makes the drive accessible.