NTFS hard drives

[Instant]

its not working, I dont know what Im doing wrong but I cant see my NTFS hard drives, here's what Im doing...
what should I do?
how can I see my windows and other NTFS hard drives?

[devils casper]

mount NTFS partition manually through command line.
create mount point and mount partition. i assume that you are trying to mount /dev/hda1.

sudo mkdir /media/hda1
sudo mount -t ntfs  /dev/hda1  /media/hda1 -o defaults,umask=0

check /media/hda1 folder.
install ntfs-3g package to enable NTFS write access.

[Instant]

thanks guys, but I still have a problem,
so it mounted and everything but I still cant enter it
I get "You dont have permissinos to read file:///mnt/DriveG

how could I get permisson... and should I enter as root to get permission (because I thought we should never log in as root...for some reason)

thank yo

[devils casper]

did you set umask value to zero? umask controls user permissions.
post the mount command that you are executing.

[Instant]

sudo mkdir /media/hda1
sudo mount -t ntfs /dev/hda1 /media/hda1

when I wrote
-o defaults,umask=0

it made an error (wrong syntax)

[devils casper]

when I wrote
-o defaults,umask=0

it made an error (wrong syntax)

something wrong somewhere. post the output of 'sudo fdisk -l' command.
did you create /media/hda1 folder?

[Instant]

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo mkdir /mnt/DriveG
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo mount -t ntfs /dev/sda8 /mnt/DriveG -o defaults,unmask=0
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda8,
missing codepage or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so

what should I do?

[devils casper]

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo mount -t ntfs /dev/sda8 /mnt/DriveG -o defaults,unmask=0

its umask not unmask. in case, its a typo, post the output of 'sudo fdisk -l' command as i suggested earlier.

[Instant]

it worked thank you

[devils casper]

you are Welcome Instant !
you have to mount this partition on every boot up. add this code in /etc/fstab file to automount partition at boot up.
execute this

gksu gedit /etc/fstab

add this line

/dev/sda8  /mnt/DriveG  ntfs   defaults,umask=0  0  0

ntfs supports read access only. you can enable write access with ntfs-3g package.
execute this

sudo apt-get install ntfs-3g

replace ntfs with ntfs-3g in /etc/fstab file. you will have write access in NTFS partition.