NTFS Sata HD not opening up

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I just installed Suse 11.0 and my storage drive is not opening up. It’s an NTFS Sata Drive. The drive is listed, but when I click on the icon under My Computer nothing happens.

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do you have ntfs-3g installed ? It’s used for read/write to ntfs file-systems. As i don’t use any windows file-systems,that’s about all i can tell you

Andy

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I heard of a similar problem. The My Computer window froze. It was the drive manufacturer – caused it to sleep if not accessed. Who is the manufacturer?

Alternatively it could be the way NTFS is mounted, which is handled differently for internal and external (usb) drives. Is yours internal or external?

Here’s a bit more on mounting NTFS:
HowTo Mount NTFS Filesystem Partition Read Write Access in openSUSE 10, 11

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I tried adding the NTFS tool and still nothing. It’s an internal Segate SATA drive. 160 gigs. I got a message saying I needed to remove the hardware from Windows so it could be mounted ??? I know. I don’t have windows in this machine (jumped in by wiping out Win from primary sata 40 gig drive. I then booted off of the Suse DVD and custom partitioned the 40 gig for Suse. It’s a full blown Linux AMD 64 system. Thanks. All my documents are stored in this NTFS drive so it is imperative that I gain access to it. Thanks in advance.

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Maybe post the contents of
/etc/fstab

for example my ntfs partition looks like this:
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD3200AAKS-_WD-WMAPZ0196427-part1 /XP ntfs-3g

For me it’s read only. But it really doesn’t matter, I never access it. And don’t even use XP any more.
But in My Computer it opens fine for me.

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You might have to run the application ntfsfix which is part of the ntfsprogs package, available on the standard repos for Suse.

More: NTFSFIX(8) manual page

You might have to reboot the drive in windows and run a consistency check or alternatively you can mount it using the “force” parameter.

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thanks swerdna! I followed the link and did some scary Vi editing of the fsab file and baam! I canow access my files. Thank you very much!! wwwwoooooooooooooooohoooooooooooo! =)

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thought it would be fstab

well done!

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Well you’re ahead of me – I can’t use vi yet – too lazy so far.