Thanks a lot…the partitions were mounted :)!!!
I mounted the partitions as said…but now after some time,somehow the partitions have disappeared from “my computer”…i tried to mount the partitions again by editing fstab ,but that did nothing…help !!!
you need to shut them down properly in MS-Windows. Boot to MS-Windows a couple of times in a row, restarting MS-Windows a couple of times, closing MS-Windows properly. Its also possible your NTFS drives are unclean and need to have chkdsk run against them from MS-Windows.
What is meant by unclean partitions …and how can they affect the mounting in linux???
I will checkdisk all the partitions…even if one the partitions is faulty shouldn’t the others show up in linux !!!
A design decision was made that the ntfs-3g driver would not mount an unclean drive (although it is possible to over ride that with the force function).
Then could you help me out to forcefully mount it !!!
If you have a partition that isn’t clean you can make it clean by booting into windows, opening a command prompt and running chkdsk /p (or is it chkdsk /f, can’t remember). Do that then after it’s over, boot into windows again and run it again.
OR
In Linux run the command sudo ntfsfix /dev/sdxy but replace sdxy with your correct partition designation.
Then try mounting it. If it still won’t mount, add this word into the list of options in the mount: force