Comments on: Howto mount windows partition onto ubuntu Linux

By: Jagdish

Jagdish — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 12:12:43 +0000

Hi,
I tried to mount
using following steps
jagdish@jagdish-ThinkPad-T420:~$ sudo mkdir -p /media/c
jagdish@jagdish-ThinkPad-T420:~$ sudo fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x2ed1e535

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 32517 261186584 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 32517 33003 3905537 5 Extended
/dev/sda3 33003 60802 223291392 83 Linux
/dev/sda5 32517 33003 3905536 82 Linux swap / Solaris
jagdish@jagdish-ThinkPad-T420:~$ sudo mount -t ntfs -o nls=utf8,umask=0222 /dev/hdb1 /media/c
ntfs-3g: Failed to access volume ‘/dev/hdb1′: No such file or directory

ntfs-3g 2010.8.8 external FUSE 28 – Third Generation NTFS Driver
Configuration type 1, XATTRS are on, POSIX ACLS are off

Usage: ntfs-3g [-o option[,...]]

Options: ro (read-only mount), remove_hiberfile, uid=, gid=,
umask=, fmask=, dmask=, streams_interface=, syncio.
Please see the details in the manual (type: man ntfs-3g).

Example: ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /mnt/windows

Ntfs-3g news, support and information: http://ntfs-3g.org
jagdish@jagdish-ThinkPad-T420:~$

Got above error

By: Jagdish

Jagdish — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 12:06:46 +0000

Hi,

Initially I have windows 7, i did two partition of disk. I installed ubuntu 11.04 Natty on free disk, after completion of installation, when i reboot the system, it is not listing windows 7 option in prompt and also it is not showing data in the ubnuntu. It is showing that Unknown for this System->Administration->Disk.
Please give the solution how can i get my data back?
Thanks,
Jagdish

By: shanaka

shanaka — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 14:42:59 +0000

great…worked 4 me..thnkx

By: Mike Avison

Mike Avison — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 15:28:56 +0000

Hi JJ

Did you try my method above (October 2010)? (using disk utility, no need to type anything!)

I’ve also got one PC mounting its NTFS disk automatically at startup by editing the fstab file. I could show you the script if you wanted, it is very easy.

Mike

By: jj

jj — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 21:38:47 +0000

Hello, I followed your tutorial but it didn’t work on Ubuntu 11.04. My laptop has 2 hard drives, one of which holds the Linux OS and its partitions and the other is a NTFS file archive. I can’t access the NTFS volume, although I have no problem with external hard drives. Here’s my terminal’s output

sudo fdisk -l

Disco /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 byte
255 testine, 63 settori/tracce, 9729 cilindri
Unità = cilindri di 16065 * 512 = 8225280 byte
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Identificativo disco: 0x000cda23

Dispositivo Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 9534 76578816 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 9534 9730 1569793 5 Esteso
/dev/sda5 9534 9730 1569792 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Disco /dev/sdb: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 byte
255 testine, 63 settori/tracce, 9729 cilindri
Unità = cilindri di 16065 * 512 = 8225280 byte
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Identificativo disco: 0x754d5e9b

Questa non sembra una tabella delle partizioni.
Probabilmente è stato scelto il dispositivo sbagliato.

Dispositivo Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 ? 1 9729 78148161 7 HPFS/NTFS

When i then do

sudo ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /media/d

ntfs-3g: Failed to access volume ‘/dev/sdb1′: File o directory non esistente

ntfs-3g 2010.8.8 external FUSE 28 – Third Generation NTFS Driver
Configuration type 1, XATTRS are on, POSIX ACLS are off

Usage: ntfs-3g [-o option[,...]]

Options: ro (read-only mount), remove_hiberfile, uid=, gid=,
umask=, fmask=, dmask=, streams_interface=, syncio.
Please see the details in the manual (type: man ntfs-3g).

Example: ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /mnt/windows

Ntfs-3g news, support and information: http://ntfs-3g.org

By: daragh

daragh — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 15:18:45 +0000

…and if in WUBI, just open /host directory – it is already mounted.

By: Jared Drake

Jared Drake — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 12:43:39 +0000

Sorry, Ubuntu 5.04 is an old version of the operating system. Try to use version 11.04 of Ubuntu Linux, its the best and terminal program is available.

Regards
Jared

By: sickophant

sickophant — Tue, 03 May 2011 04:18:37 +0000

Exactly what I needed. Thanks, dude.

By: Dev

Dev — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 20:00:41 +0000

i have $ instead of # at the command

By: Mount Trouble

Mount Trouble — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 08:28:09 +0000

When using:
sudo mount -t ntfs -o nls=utf8,umask=0222 /dev/sda2 ~/Windows/C:
I get:
Mount is denied because the NTFS volume is already exclusively opened. The volume may be already mounted, or another software may use it which could be identified for example by the help of the ‘fuser’ command.
However, when I run this:
fuser -a
I get:
No process specification given

Thanks for helping a n00b.

By: Aditya

Aditya — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 20:45:14 +0000

i have a problem i can not see my windows NTFS partitions in my user, i can only see the partitions on login from root…

please help me, how can i access my /dev/sda2 partition on login as a user as well as root.
please reply me on my email ID.

By: Mike Avison

Mike Avison — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 18:52:31 +0000

Hi
With Ubunto 10 it is easier than the methods above.
From your top menu select system>administration>disk utility

It shows you a map of the partitions of all the local disks.

Click on the partition you want to mount (it goes darker) then click on Mount the Volume (just below). Over to the right you will see the mount point (e.g. /media/document).

Check it out by starting File Browser and navigating to the mount point, you should find the contents of your windows file system.

Simples

By: M. Jeyaraj

M. Jeyaraj — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 05:27:38 +0000

dear sir,

i am using dual os how can i mount the windows partition mount with linux 5
pls reply my mail

By: Ritesh

Ritesh — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 08:32:10 +0000

Hi,
I got the following error when i mount ntfs partition on centos 5
Output of fdisk
# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160000000000 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19452 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 14 523 4096575 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda3 524 19452 152047192+ 83 Linux

Disk /dev/sdb: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 121601 976760001 7 HPFS/NTFS

# mount -t ntfs -o nls=utf8,umask=0222 /dev/sdb1 /mnt/backup_94/
FATAL: Module fuse not found.
ntfs-3g-mount: fuse device is missing, try ‘modprobe fuse’ as root
#

Can any one help to sort the issue ?

By: CJC

CJC — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:38:13 +0000

Thank you so much. It worked perfectly.

By: Sajal

Sajal — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 09:32:24 +0000

Thank you very much .
These commands really worked .
I was trying to mount from a lot of time but succeeded with this one .

By: Shahrasaan

Shahrasaan — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 10:32:32 +0000

hi, there,
This is Shahrasaan, i’m in trouble with my Ubuntu 9.04 once i was happy with it but sometimes before it asked me for a update and i allowed it.
Now it’s not showing my Windows XP OS because i have updated my grub to grub-2 it shows on the startup : Debain GNU/Linux kernel 2.6.28.17 on the top, 2.6.28.16 on the middle and 2.6.28.11 on the bottom with their recovery modes but not my Windows XP is listed as it was before…. is their any thing in Ubuntu like system restore in Windows

By: tharpa

tharpa — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 14:32:21 +0000

@Bongkeng start with:
sudo mkdir -p /media/c
sudo mount -t ntfs -o nls=utf8,umask=0222 /dev/sda5 /media/c

By: tharpa

tharpa — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 16:34:18 +0000

I have the same question as kapoios, how to make the mount permanent. The link that nixcraft provided seems to be based on reading only Windows Shares, rather than whole drives. How would I use this method, but make it start up with GNU/Linux?

By: tharpa

tharpa — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 23:42:53 +0000

This is great! I’m now one major step closer to being able to leave Windows behind. I’m just astonished when something actually works without too much hassle!