Unable to mount sda1

[Suvir]

I recently installed debian etch. I am dual-booting it with vista which is on another drive. I am unable to access that drive.It says "unable to mount /dev/sda1". What should i do? I really have important stuff on that drive and i want to be able to access it without opening vista at all.

[Agent-X]

man ntfs-3g

ntfs-3g(8) - Linux man page

[glennzo]

Or post the output of the command /sbin/fdisk -l and cat /etc/fstab here.

[Suvir]

This is the output of /sbin/fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 16758 134602871 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 18798 19457 5301450 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 16759 18751 16008772+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 18752 18797 369495 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Partition table entries are not in disk order

and the output of cat /etc/fstab is:

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/sda3 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/sda4 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hda /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0

umm..apart from this i tried doin it with ntfs-3g.During its installation, when i do ./configure, it says FUSE>=2.6.0 not detected. But i just installed FUSE 2.7.2. Whats happening??

[glennzo]

Don't know how far you've gotten or what you've done to try to mount. I'd try /dev/sda2. Is this a laptop or a store bought desktop?

mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda2 /media/windows
or
mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda2 /mnt/windows

Do it as root.

[coopstah13]

su
apt-get install ntfs-3g

then do what the above person said