Newbie, Disk mounting error

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Cannot access my other drives :frowning: Help please

and also in the setup drive i got vista, how to get it to dual boot ?

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Please learn how to post thumbnails!

To your problem: Please open a terminal, switch to su and type:

fdisk -l

and

cat /etc/fstab

Post result for each of those

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Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 2611 20972826 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 * 2612 5221 20964825 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 5222 6374 9261472 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda4 6375 60800 437176845 f W95 Ext’d (LBA)
/dev/sda5 6375 19122 102398278+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda6 19123 31870 102398278+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda7 31871 44618 102398278+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda8 44619 60800 129981883+ 7 HPFS/NTFS

linux-9tvy:/home/ashley # cat /etc/fstab
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD5000AAKS-00M9A0_WD-WMAVC0110801-part3 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD5000AAKS-00M9A0_WD-WMAVC0110801-part2 / ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD5000AAKS-00M9A0_WD-WMAVC0110801-part5 /windows/c ntfs-3g user,users,gid=users,fmask=133,dmask=022,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD5000AAKS-00M9A0_WD-WMAVC0110801-part6 /windows/d ntfs-3g user,users,gid=users,fmask=133,dmask=022,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD5000AAKS-00M9A0_WD-WMAVC0110801-part7 /windows/f ntfs-3g user,users,gid=users,fmask=133,dmask=022,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD5000AAKS-00M9A0_WD-WMAVC0110801-part8 /windows/g ntfs-3g users,gid=users,fmask=133,dmask=022,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs noauto 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0

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Let’s just work on the ntfs first.
edit the fstab file as above. This is how to do it. Open a terminal and type this:

kdesu kwrite /etc/fstab

enter your password as required and edit and save the file, then reboot

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Done and booted, i tried accesing the drive now it says only root can access blablabla

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post again

cat /etc/fstab
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dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD5000AAKS-00M9A0_WD-WMAVC0110801-part3 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD5000AAKS-00M9A0_WD-WMAVC0110801-part2 / ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD5000AAKS-00M9A0_WD-WMAVC0110801-part5 /windows/c ntfs-3g defaults 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD5000AAKS-00M9A0_WD-WMAVC0110801-part6 /windows/d ntfs-3g defaults 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD5000AAKS-00M9A0_WD-WMAVC0110801-part7 /windows/f ntfs-3g defaults 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD5000AAKS-00M9A0_WD-WMAVC0110801-part8 /windows/g ntfs-3g defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs noauto 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0

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Do the directories actually exist in your tree

Go to View in Dolphin - Places - Panels
Check the Folders option
go down to the w’s
Are folders there Eg:/windows/c