How do u mount hard drives

Im booting arch linux on my USB hard drive everything works fine, but just wondering if i can access to my harddrive and transfer files and stuffs.
Is there any way i can access to my main hard drive?
thank you,

At the command prompt, type fdisk -l which will list all the hard drives, and the partitions on each, in your system.
Once you find the drive you want, you need to make somewhere to mount it, then mount it:
mkdir /media/harddisk1
mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /media/harddisk1
(Is it bad if I hit {tab} to try and get bash to auto-complete /media when I was typing it above? )
The above assumes that the partition you want to mount is /dev/sda1 and it is formatted as NTFS.
Let us know what format your hard drive is, or look at 'man mount' to find other types.
Oh, and you'll need to be root for some of those commands

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