I'm using DSL Linux at the moment butIi am a total newbie to linux. I'm booting DSL from a live cd so no problems there but I am unable to access the C drive. There is a sidebar that lets you mount the drive hda1 but I don't know how to access the drive itself. I go to /dev/hda1 or something like that but it won't do anything. I need serious help because I'm so windows orientated that even simple tasks like this I can't do.

Is the C drive NTFS or VFAT?

If NTFS, I suspect you cannot get to it without a custom Linux kernel.

If VFAT try:

mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt

The look in /mnt for the C drive data.

For info on mount do:

man mount

If the drive is already automounted, do:

df

to figure out the mount point.

Thanx alot it works brilliantly, it also works with NTFS if you use:
mount -t ntfs dev/hdc1 /mnt

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