Backtrack - How to access your windows files - For Beginners

This is a response to a video request. I explain and show you how to view your windows files through Backtrack 5 Linux. The commands that I use in the konsole are:

fdisk -l




This will show you a list of current partitions and volumes.




mkdir /mnt/windows

This will create a folder named "windows" in the /mnt/ folder under "root" in linux. Really, you can name it whatever you want but for this video, I name it windows.


mount -t ntfs /dev/sda2 /mnt/windows

Finally this command specifies to mount the NTFS file system /dev/sda2 into the /mnt/windows folder. After this is done properly, all we have to do is goto our file manager, mnt folder, then windows, and we should see what we have "mounted" which in this case, is my windows C drive.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• linux
• mount
• windows
• backtrack
• howto
• access
• files

[pboom112]

would you know:

How to autologin / auto root and toor / auto startx / auto booting in VirtualBox BT5

thanks again keep it up

[Raventattoo]

@pboom112 Here is the deal, with backtrack 5, the kind of linux that BT5 runs off of, requires that you must have to input a username and password. People have attempted to alter this and all they get are issues and error messages, so unfortunately, I cannot help much there. If I recall correctly, with BT4, once you installed it, you wouldnt have to type in a username and password, just the startx. but anyways, like I said, It requires a username and password.

[pboom112]

thank you so much this help alot,

to bad cant do this in VirtualBox v4.0.8

[Raventattoo]

@pboom112 If you booted with virtualbox, then you may be able to do it if you actually install BT5 with virtualbox onto the hard drive, just like if you installed windows 7 or any other operating system. or just get a thumbdrive or external usb drive, and install it to that!

[InfoTechPimp]

Getting this Error. Please help.

root@ubuntu:~# mount -t ntfs /dev/sda3 /mnt/windows

Mount is denied because the NTFS volume is already exclusively opened.

The volume may be already mounted, or another software may use it which

could be identified for example by the help of the 'fuser' command.

[ompbl]

thanks for the video. i have an issue with W7, VirtualBox and BT5 Gnome 64: I see the shared file in W7 explorer but I can't access it even though i nade sure the workgroup are the same in samba. Any suggestions?? Thanks in advance.