How do i mount a ntfs hard drive in ubuntu

**Vender** · 07-09-2006

I just started messing with linux and I picked ubuntu to mess with. I have Ubuntu installed on a 120gig sata HD and also have a windows partion on a diffrent hard drive that is also a 120gig sata HD. The linux hard drive is the first hard drive and the windows is set to the second hard drive. I want to be able to mount my windows hard drive this way I can get music and pictures stuff like that on my linux hard drive and not have to reboot my machine every time I want to access my windows stuff. I know that linux can only read ntfs but cant write to it which is fine. i dont want to boot into windows from ubuntu either because i am to lazy to reinstall windows. Please some one help me out and just explain to me what to do i am lost.

**antidrugue** · 07-09-2006

Follow those instructions to mount a NTFS partition :
http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Dapper#Windows

**Vender** · 07-09-2006

When i follow the instructions it says that the special device doesnt exist. the command i used was sudo mount /dev/hda1 /media/windows/ -t ntfs -o nls=utf8,umask=0222 This did not work so i tried doing sudo mount /dev/sbd1 /media/windows/ -t ntfs -o nls=utf8,umask=0222 But still same error. I dont know man help a noob out lol

**nature** · 07-09-2006

Originally Posted by Vender

mount /dev/hda1 /media/windows/ -t ntfs -o nls=utf8,umask=0222

well,you have to identify your windows partition.
do a
/sbin/fdisk -l

to find that and replace the /dev/hda1 with that.
If you cannot figure it out,please post the output here.

regards

**Vender** · 07-09-2006

i saw the mistake i mad lol it was pretty dumb mount /dev/sdb1 /media/windows/ -t ntfs -o nls=utf8,umask=0222

instead of me using /dev/sbd1 i was mixing the letters up thats why i was coming up with those errors thank you guys both very much for you help i got it to work now.

**bamend** · 07-15-2006

I had 3 hard drives in windows and just got this to work but I only find the last partition in the /media/windows/ folder. Is there a way to get all 4 partitions to reside in /media/windows?

**Vergil83** · 07-15-2006

Originally Posted by bamend

I had 3 hard drives in windows and just got this to work but I only find the last partition in the /media/windows/ folder. Is there a way to get all 4 partitions to reside in /media/windows?

you could mount them inside the folder... for example they would be at /media/windows/blah1, etc... You can not mount all 4 at one location

**Vergil83** · 07-17-2006

Originally Posted by bamend

Will the partitions mount every time you boot?

read the section How to mount Windows partitions (NTFS) on boot-up, and allow all users to read only on the site that antidrugue linked to

**tamas** · 07-18-2006

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**St33l** · 03-28-2008

Originally Posted by St33l

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A computer that forwards Internet e-mail messages using the SMTP protocol, using Sendmail or similar software. Type in google smtp server programs. what you after windows or linux?

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