I reached out for help on another forums, I might as well try here. My media center crashed and I'm trying to get back some files on the HD with Fedora 10 Live. intel core 2 duo @1.86Ghz 2005 windows XP media center 250 GB SATA HD 2 GB RAM I have 2 partitions, 1 recovery(D:\) and the other one for everyday beating(C:\). In Fedora, the partition drive mounts whereas the general partition, where windows is, does not and that's where my files are. I tried forcing the mount but I was unsuccessful at that. device in question is /sda1. mount -t ntfs-3g/dev/sda1/media/disk -o force didn't do much. Fedora indicates an unclean shutdown(0,1) and now, even if I'm working with Fedora, the mount is marked to be in use by WINDOWS . The file system is NTFS. I got pissed off and yanked the HD out. Booted it with my other pc, SATA to USB, both partitions show, D:\ is accessible and C:\ is NOT, drive corrupt or unreadable. Is there a more violent method to force mount C: / sda1 in Fedora?