I have a bunch of MP3s and all of them were on my windows partition. I was in mandrake 9.1 and I right clicked on my desktop, found add new drive. I found a tab where I could select the drive and then hit ok. Now I can double click on the drive and access all my files in windows.
Edit:
Sorry about that. I was using KDE 3.1 and once I had opened the new drive windows I went to the third tab from the left and there are a list of drives to select. I selected /dev/hda1 because I was dual booting. I then clicked ok and a harddrive icon appeared on my desktop. I doubleclicked on it and there was all the folders on my windows partition. I went into windows, desktop, and finally to my MP3 folder on my windows desktop.

The idea of this forum is to specifically provide detailed descriptions of *how* you achieved what you have, not just what you've achieved. If you would like to provide more information about your experiences, such as what desktop environment you were using for starters then other people are more likely to benefit from your own findings, thanks.