How do you access the C drive from a Linux terminal?

Answer 1

Linux does not identify drives or partitions with letters. To Windows, "C:" is the partition that the running version of Windows is currently installed on, regardless of how many partitions are on the disk. Linux identifies partitions based on the order they are placed on the disk. For instance, the second partition on the first hard drive would be /dev/sda2 or /dev/hda2.

In order to access a Windows partition,you will need to identify what partition it is actually on. A quick way to do this is to run

cfdisk /dev/sda

or cfdisk with whatever hard drive it is on if you have more than one. A Windows partition will have the type of either NTFS or FAT32. To mount it, create a directory (such as /mnt/windows), and use the command

mount /dev/sda3 /mnt/windows

substituting of course the correct partition.