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So…you have a dual boot of Windows and Debian and you want to mount a Windows partition in your Debian distro, so that you are able to access windows files and folders?
First of all, you need to know where your Windows partition is. To do this run the following command in your terminal as root:

fdisk -l

You’ll see a list whit all your partitions. Usually, the Windows partition is the first one. In my case it’s /dev/hda1.
Now, we create a new directory in Debian to mount our Windows partition. Again, as root:

mkdir /mnt/windows

And finally, we mount our partition:

mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows -t ntfs -w

You can run “man mount” to a learn some more about the mount command.
If you wish to unmount it:

umount /mnt/windows

And it’s done. You can now access your Windows files and folders in your Debian system.
This may also work with other GNU/Linux distributions.

If you prefer, you can also download the following bash script to mount your partition for you:

mount_win.sh (right click -> save as)

Don’t forget to change “/dev/hda1” to your Windows partition and “/mnt/windows” if you wish to create the partition in a different directory.
To run it just navigate to the directory where you saved it and do “. mount_win.sh” as root.

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If you’re facing the problem of your touchpad mouse being too slow in your linux distribution then here is your solution (it worked for me and a few other people). This was tested in Debian but may also work in other linux distributions.
All you have to do is to edit your xorg.conf file and add the following (don’t forget to create a backup):

Section “InputDevice”
Identifier “Synaptics Touchpad”
Driver “synaptics”
Option “SendCoreEvents” “true”
Option “Device” “/dev/input/psaux” (or whatever you have here)
Option “Protocol” “auto-dev”
Option “ZAxisMapping” “4 5″
Option “Emulate3Buttons” “on”
Option “SHMConfig” “on”
Option “LeftEdge” “85″
Option “RightEdge” “1010″
Option “TopEdge” “85″
Option “BottomEdge” “730″
Option “FingerLow” “25″
Option “FingerHigh” “30″
Option “MaxTapTime” “180″
Option “MaxTapMove” “220″
Option “VertScrollDelta” “100″
Option “MinSpeed” “0.10″
Option “MaxSpeed” “0.45″
Option “AccelFactor” “0.2″
Option “HorizScrollDelta” “0″
EndSection

This should do the trick
If you don’t know how to edit your xorg.conf file then here is a possible way of doing it:

1- Open your terminal, login as root, and navigate to /etc/X11.
2- Now, you can use Vi (text editor, usually already installed) to edit the file in the console. Just write vi xorg.conf. Now you are able to edit the file. Save it and you’re done.
If you do not know how to work with Vi you can check this link or try other editor.
3- Reboot so the system loads the new configuration and you should now have a faster touchpad.
You can also edit speed values at your need.

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