As you’ve seen, Windows partitions will not be mounted automatically when your system starts; instead you need to manually mount them, which requires entering the root password. You can automate the process and that lets you also select a better mount point (the directory from which you can access the partition).
Under Windows, check which drive letters (C:, D:, and so on) exist for Windows partitions, and then create folders named/win/c/, /win/d/, et cetera. Then under Linux mount those partitions, right click their entries, and open the Properties dialog. In the last lines you will find two fields:
• Mounted on displays the mount point, for example /run/media/esser/Win-NTFS,• Mounted from displays the device file that identifies a partition, for example /dev/sdb1. These devices will (in most cases) have names like…