mounting NTFS (only) drives into Ubuntu

sorry DirectHEx i must be driving you crazy lol :bowdown:

im trying to view my files on my two hardrives (both 250GB HDD's)

i have been looking at soem sites but a bit baffled.

the result of Sudo fdisk -l is:

<q> <me>
jack@jack-desktop:~$ sudo fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 11444 91923898+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 11445 14461 24234052+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 14462 14593 1060290 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 14462 14593 1060258+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Disk /dev/sdb: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 30401 244196001 7 HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/sdc: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 484521 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 * 1 484500 244187968+ 7 HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/sdd: 1997 MB, 1997799424 bytes
62 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1015 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 3844 * 512 = 1968128 bytes

This doesn't look like a partition table
Probably you selected the wrong device.

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdd1 ? 202429 499388 570754815+ 72 Unknown
Partition 1 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
phys=(357, 116, 40) logical=(202428, 43, 11)
Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(357, 32, 45) logical=(499387, 30, 51)
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sdd2 ? 43884 547534 968014120 65 Novell Netware 386
Partition 2 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
phys=(288, 115, 43) logical=(43883, 52, 47)
Partition 2 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(367, 114, 50) logical=(547533, 14, 42)
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sdd3 ? 486442 990091 968014096 79 Unknown
Partition 3 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
phys=(366, 32, 33) logical=(486441, 36, 30)
Partition 3 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(357, 32, 43) logical=(990090, 59, 39)
Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sdd4 ? 1 946209 1818613248 d Unknown
Partition 4 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
phys=(372, 97, 50) logical=(0, 0, 1)
Partition 4 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(0, 10, 0) logical=(946208, 47, 30)
Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary.



thanks!!

Edit: could you also tell me what -l does? a lot of commands use that - symbol but whats it mean?

fdisk -l

the -l is "list" as in show the partitions

what exactly are you trying to do, as your title suggests your tyring to mount your ntfs partition, but I can't see any attempt to mount it

What are you doing to mount it ?


also, the ammount of basic problems you're having suggests you'd really benifit from glancing through

https://wiki.ubuntu.com


re-read your post and the "-" or minus symbol normally denotes an argument for the command you're typing.

So in the same way you would do fdisk /mbr and "mbr" is an option for fdisk - is the same style operator as / for most unix commands

so dir /w in windows - the "/" denotes "argument" and "w" is the option
in the same way "fdisk" is the command "-" denotes the "agrument" option and "l" is the option

i cant remeber exactly but it was somethign along the lines of

sudo /dev/hdb (as in the HDD) mnt (folder here) auto 0 0

something along those lines, idd im having allot of 'basic' problems...

but some things like this for example, tried to research my self but it didnt seem to work (or it could be just too late and my brain is not working) :P

just got this from the wiki URL I posted under the search "ntfs"

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/mountNTFSrea...ght=%28ntfs%29