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Once The System Has Started Up, The First Thing You Want To Do Is Choose Places / Computer From The Menu

Once the system starts up, the user is instructed to open Places > Computer to view available drives, including the Windows drive, which may show an error. The user should open a new Terminal and use sudo commands to mount the drive by forcing Ubuntu to use the ntfs-3g driver for the specified drive, displayed in the error message. Running fdisk -l in the Terminal will show more information about available drives like the filesystem type and device name needed for the mount command. The hard drive should then be accessible through the Computer icon.

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Once The System Has Started Up, The First Thing You Want To Do Is Choose Places / Computer From The Menu

Once the system starts up, the user is instructed to open Places > Computer to view available drives, including the Windows drive, which may show an error. The user should open a new Terminal and use sudo commands to mount the drive by forcing Ubuntu to use the ntfs-3g driver for the specified drive, displayed in the error message. Running fdisk -l in the Terminal will show more information about available drives like the filesystem type and device name needed for the mount command. The hard drive should then be accessible through the Computer icon.

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Once the system has started up, the first thing you want to do is choose Places \ Computer from

the menu.

This should show you all the drives available in the system, including your Windows drive. In my case, that is the 52.4 GB volume.

You can try and double-click on the drive to open it and if it immediately works then lucky you! Most of the time its going to give you an error saying Unable to mount the volume, because Windows didnt shut it down cleanly.

Click the Details link so that you can see the full message, and leave this window open. Youll see a Choice 2 in the message, which includes the commands to force Ubuntu to use that drive even though theres something wrong.

What youll want to do is open a new Terminal from Applications \ Accessories \ Terminal on the top menu. Once youve done that, then youll want to type in a bunch of commands, which Ill walk you through. First, well want to switch to administrator mode, which in Linux terms is known as root. The simplest way to do it is with this command: sudo /bin/bash Now well need to create a directory that well mount the drive on. The full explanation of mounting drives is a little complex, so just run this command: mkdir /media/disk Now comes the tricky part. Youll need to type out a command very similar to this one, but youll need to replace /dev/sda1 with what you see in that message box we showed you above. This command tells Ubuntu to use the ntfs-3g driver, and force mount even if there is a problem. mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /media/disk -o force If your drive is FAT32 instead of NTFS, then you can use the following command instead: mount -t vfat -o umask=000 /dev/sda1 /media/disk

If you are having problems figuring out whether you have NTFS or FAT32, and you cant figure out which /dev/whatever to use, then type in the following command at your prompt (make sure you already ran the command to run things as root) fdisk -l In the output you should see a lot more information about the available drives you can see in this example that the filesystem type is NTFS and the device name is /dev/sda1.

At this point, you should be able to access your hard drive through the icon in Computer.

Note: If you have more than one drive in the computer, or more than one partition, they should show up separately in Computer. You should perform the same steps as above to open those drives up as well.

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