Windows HDD won't mount

[caustik_bt]

Currently, I have Ubuntu running on a USB harddrive while my Window's hard drive is in my machine via IDE. My problem is, Ubuntu can see the drive and it's partitions, as well as capacities, however it doesn't feel like mounting it. I get the error:

error: device /dev/hda3 is not removable
error: could not execute pmount

Any help or explaination? This isn't critical, but I definately would like to be able to access my art and media stored on that drive...

[rcgreen]

post your /etc/fstab file and let's see

[ImNeat]

Is your windows partition ntfs? If so - while you can view and sometimes write to it from linux, it's a frowned-upon practice. Writing to ntfs from linux is a nice way to bust up the partition. You'd be best to make a 3rd fat32 partition to share between linux & windows.

[caustik_bt]

Well, all I wish to be able to do is read from that drive. It's got all my music, which I would much enjoy having while using Linux. Anyway, the fstab reads this:

# /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/sda5       none            swap    sw              0       0
/dev/hdc        /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto     0       0

[antidrugue]

Can you post the output of

fdisk -l

?

[caustik_bt]

Disk /dev/sda: 20.5 GB, 20547841536 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2498 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1               1         784     6297448+  83  Linux
/dev/sda2             785         915     1052257+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda3   *         916        2429    12161205   83  Linux
/dev/sda4            2430        2498      554242+   5  Extended
/dev/sda5            2430        2498      554211   82  Linux swap / Solaris

Disk /dev/sdb: 127 MB, 127926272 bytes
4 heads, 61 sectors/track, 1024 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 244 * 512 = 124928 bytes

This doesn't look like a partition table
Probably you selected the wrong device.

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1   ?     3189082     7867400   570754815+  72  Unknown
Partition 1 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
     phys=(357, 116, 40) logical=(3189081, 2, 23)
Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings:
     phys=(357, 32, 45) logical=(7867399, 2, 61)
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sdb2   ?      691351     8625893   968014120   65  Novell Netware 386
Partition 2 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
     phys=(288, 115, 43) logical=(691350, 2, 1)
Partition 2 has different physical/logical endings:
     phys=(367, 114, 50) logical=(8625892, 1, 53)
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sdb3   ?     7663449    15597991   968014096   79  Unknown
Partition 3 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
     phys=(366, 32, 33) logical=(7663448, 2, 32)
Partition 3 has different physical/logical endings:
     phys=(357, 32, 43) logical=(15597990, 1, 36)
Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sdb4   ?    11826563    11826790       27749+   d  Unknown
Partition 4 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
     phys=(372, 97, 50) logical=(11826562, 0, 25)
Partition 4 has different physical/logical endings:
     phys=(0, 10, 0) logical=(11826789, 2, 13)
Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary.

Partition table entries are not in disk order

[antidrugue]

As root

su

just type the command

fdisk -l

in the terminal or console.

EDIT: ok you got it.

[antidrugue]

And what about

fdisk -l /dev/hda

?

[caustik_bt]

Disk /dev/hda: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24321 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *           1        7939    63769986    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda3            7940       24321   131588415    7  HPFS/NTFS

[antidrugue]

Check out this thread on how to add an entry in your /etc/fstab file :
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/sus...e-help-me.html

The mount point must exist. Then you can mount the content of /etc/fstab like that:

mount -a

If you just want to mount it once, you can do it like that :

mount -t ntfs -o umask=0222,user /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows1

The directory /mnt/windows1 must exist.

You can replace /dev/hda1 with /dev/hda3 for the other partition, and /mnt/windows1 for any destination you may choose.