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I need to mount some of my Windows partitions

Asked by RKinkead

I have at least two(2) windows partirions on my slave HD dev/hdb. Most of this drive is partitioned as FAT32 but, the first partition was converted to NTFS so Ubuntu is saying that it cannot mount this drive.

The /etc/fstab contains the following information;

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda2 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/hda5 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
rkinkead@TAZ-09-25-49:~$

When I try to do an fdisk on /dev/hdb I receive the following;

rkinkead@TAZ-09-25-49:~$ fdisk /dev/hdb

Unable to open /dev/hdb
rkinkead@TAZ-09-25-49:~$

Can anyone help?

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Benoit Malet (benoit-malet) said : 		#1

Hello !

Can you verifiy that the physical integrity of your hdb drive is OK? I had the same message this morning with a faulty drive ...

Regards,
Benoît

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RKinkead (rkinkead) said : 		#2

Hi Benoit

Sorry this has taken so long, but I have been away for a few days.

I have no problem accessing the hdb through windows. I can read every file on there write to it and edit the files. I have been adding photos to one of the partitions there as well. When booting I receive no errors in either Windows or Ubuntu.

RK

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TraceyLedbetter (concept10) said : 		#3

RKinkead,

The /etc/fstab you listed doesn't have any entries for the NTFS or FAT32 partitions, so they will not be mounted unless you enter the correct information there.

Regarding fdisk, have you tried to run this using sudo?

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Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 (popey) said : 		#4

The following web page details all about mounting windows partitions in Ubuntu:-

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MountingWindowsPartitions

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RKinkead (rkinkead) said : 		#5

Thanks I will check it out and let you know what happens.

The last time I tried to mount these partitions I got an error message that stated they were not removable devices so they could not be mounted. At least they are being seen now.

RK

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John Haitas (jhaitas) said : 		#6

what do you get when you

sudo fdisk -l | grep hdb

?

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John Haitas (jhaitas) said : 		#7

can we assume you solved this problem?

what do you get when you

sudo fdisk -l | grep hdb

?

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