> "ls /mnt/windows" nothing, returns the promt.

>what is the output of "cat /proc/mounts" ?
rootfs / rootfs rw 00
/dev/root /ext2 rw 00
none /proc proc rw 00
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw 00

>--Note that he has an NTFS partition as C: - it might be confusing Linux
It might be managing a NTFS partition, I had a Mandrike before that could find and open a file on the NTFS partition.
This particular file I'm struggling with is on the FAT32 partition, though to avoid any confussion.