Hi,

On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Mayur Pawar samyak.mayur@gmail.com wrote:

Hi,

I have a dual boot machine..running Windows XP and Ubuntu 8.04..Having trouble in mounting a 20 GB NTFS partition in Ubuntu 8.04. I have other partitions which are Fat32 partitions and easily mounting. Tried googling the issue and also used NTFS-config tool..It gave me an error saying Windows was not shut down cleanly..and asked me to remove any drives

You can force mount the NTFS drive, when Windows wasn't shut down cleanly. # mount -t ntfs-3g -o force /dev/device-name /mount/point should do it, for you. [Note: You need root privileges to run this command] [I have no experience with the tool you mentioned]

connected..after using ntfs-config i changed the mount point name..it again gave me the same error..and then said i didnt have privileges to mount the partition..

Did you try that with root privileges?

HTH, punchagan

Mayur Pawar wrote:

Hi,

I have a dual boot machine..running Windows XP and Ubuntu 8.04..Having trouble in mounting a 20 GB NTFS partition in Ubuntu 8.04. I have other partitions which are Fat32 partitions and easily mounting. Tried googling the issue and also used NTFS-config tool..It gave me an error saying Windows was not shut down cleanly..and asked me to remove any drives connected..after using ntfs-config i changed the mount point name..it again gave me the same error..and then said i didnt have privileges to mount the partition..please help me with the same..i do not intend to format the partition since i am having a lot of data here..

First ensure that your NTFS partition is clean. In XP, go to 'My Computer' and right click on that partition, select 'Properties'. In that go to the 'Tools' tab and select the first button to fix drive errors. In the window that pops up, select both the check boxes and start the scan. In case your system returns a message that you cannot do it now ( For drives that are in use, like C:\ ) but it can be done during the next boot, select the 'Yes' button. After all processes are complete, boot into Ubuntu and type 'sudo apt-get install ntfs-3g' in your GUI terminal.

Now for some home work, look up google for the exact options to use when mounting an NTFS partition using ntfs-3g as your fs type (mount -t ntfs-3g ....). Its not so complicated.