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m1llky

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Registered: 2025-05-22

Posts: 1

Can't access non-linux drives from file exlporer

Hi there!
I'm new to Arch, previously used Mint - and i'm trying to set up dual boot.
Windows 10 on m2 and Arch Hyprland on sata ssd. OS themselves seems to work fine, but i don't see windows in grub menu and i also don't see any of my drives in linux file explorer (i'm using thonar. i saw drives in dolphin but got error when was trying to access/mount them).
I tried several solutions from forum/other sites, but no one seems to help.
Wish someone will be able to help me here.

BenSYZ

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Registered: 2020-08-26

Posts: 5

Re: Can't access non-linux drives from file exlporer

Try to use terminal to check the partitions which on Windows is called "drive".
1. use the following command to check the disks and the partitions

lsblk

2. once you find out your windows c: drive (you can guess it by size), use mount command to mount it to some directory. Here for example is to /mnt:

mount -t ntfs3 <windows parttion> /mnt

You may failed to mount, try to use

dmesg

to check the error info. The reason may be not cleaned or any thing else. If that happens, post the kernel log here.

To make grub detect windows, please refer to this wiki page