Can't mount NTFS drive in ubuntu, Y ?

[saqib_khan]

Hi,

My friend has Win XP + Hardy Heron. Dual booting. I installed Ubuntu in his PC. From that time till now, i can't open any NTFS drive in Ubuntu. I mean y r the drives not mounting, what's the problem??

Win XP is working fine. And Win XP is also shut down properly.

So guys, any suggestions?

[Faun]

u should have used FORCE to check

[saqib_khan]

Originally Posted by T159

u should have used FORCE to check

And how to do this??

[ghost at rest]

Open Terminal and execute this

sudo fdisk -l

* Its small L in fdisk -l.
Note down device name assigned to NTFS partition(s).
Let say, /dev/sda1 is NTFS partition. Execute this

sudo mkdir /media/sda1
sudo mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /media/sda1 -o defaults,umask=0
ls /media/sda1

In case any of above command throws error, post exact error message here.
You can edit /etc/fstab file to automount partition(s) at boot up.

[Rahim]

Have you installed ntfs-config?

[saqib_khan]

@rahimveron

No

[FilledVoid]

Doesn't ntfs-config get installed by default? I don't recall adding it to get my NTFS drives active in Ubuntu.

[Rahim]

^I did install it in Mint 5.0 , so it is based on Hardy so i thought it was not installed in his case.
If it is then he has to use the force way to mount them.

So search for it in Synaptic and install it and activate it from System Tools-->NTFS COnfiguration Tool and enable write support for internal/external drives.

[ghost at rest]

Execute this

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ntfs-config

[nach]

i think fuse needs to be integrated with kernel
try $sudo apt-get install fuse fuse-ntfs-3g dkms dkms-fuse

[ghost at rest]

Originally Posted by nach

i think fuse needs to be integrated with kernel
try $sudo apt-get install fuse fuse-ntfs-3g dkms dkms-fuse

There is no need to install any other package except ntfs-config. All other packages are pre-installed in Ubuntu Hardy Heron.

[Faun]

ntfs-3g is comes by default in Ubuntu 8.04
yeah but you do need to install configuration GUI, only if you are a click click geek

[saqib_khan]

Ok, thank u all.

The problem solved automatically, i have'nt done anything.

Computer is an error machine, sometimes prob solves automatically & sometimes not.