Mounting Windows partitions or drives
Posted by geetarista June 15, 2006
For a while I’ve had to go the long way to be able to acces my Windows hard drive in Ubuntu because I didn’t know how to mount it with the right permissions. I used to go into sudo at the command line, start Konqueror or Nautilus, and then browse the drive. Ubuntu already sets it up to be able to mount, but you can’t access because of permissions. So I finally found an easy way to change that. At the command line, type this:
sudo gedit /etc/fstab
After it opens, you should see a line somewhere that looks like this:
/dev/hda1 ntfs defaults 0 0
It may not be exactly the same, but look for the line(s) that have “ntfs” in them. Now, replace the “defaults” text and replace it with this:
/dev/hda1 ntfs user,fmask=0000,dmask=0000 0 0
Now you should be able to read the information off your hard drive or partition. Just remember not to try to write to it!
