OMG this is extremely irritating!!! I lost it and am looking at my last resort here. I love K, but making it work sometimes is like trying to have a normal relationship with a 36 blonde! Ok, here is the problem: (me=noob) Running K Feisty (7.04)
I was getting tired at the fact that I couldn't write anything to my NTFS partitions (could read though), so I decided to try and change the permissions...but wait...I don't have enough privileges to do that!!!
So what do I do? OH yeah, I login as a superuser! ....hmmm.... I've been looking for weeks now but cannot find any info on how to do this... Why can't the same dialog come up as usual, asking you to login as admin Perhaps the simplicity would resemble microsoft too much 
? But either way, I tried to make it work, but usually my futile attempts didn't damage anything.... simply created about 10 useless, extra items in my /media folder (btw how do I get rid of them now?). I was always able to get the HD mounted and regain access to it (read only ofcourse). But today I did something that caused it to stop working at all: Everything was fine until I changed the configuration window under disk & filesystems window. I changed the "files belong to user (from root(0) to my username(1000))" and "files belong to group (from disk(6) to username(1000))" and mount permission to "any user may enable disable anytime". I hit ok.... and instantly (2sec after) I noticed that status of the mount was "disabled" although I haven't disabled it....uh oh.... enabling didn't help... gave me errors. Reversing what I've done did not help either.... something was screwed up now and I couldn't fix it. No matter what I've tried, even creating a new mount point to the desktop (gave me an error saying a mount point already exists and is in use). I've even tried to disconnect the drive, start up the system without it, and then restart with it so it could possibly be reset (like in windows 
), but a prob there too: computer will not boot without my slave drive..... disk boot failure!!!!! this has never happened before with windows, but is happening with kubuntu 
. The darn thing wont boot just cuz I removed the extra drive!!! what kind of crap is that!?!??!lol i'm furious!
So anyway, here I am, the 2nd drive won't work, and I'm out of options... Whenever I hit enable the drive, an error pops up saying: "An error occurred while enabling <mount point>. The system reported: mount: special device <device> does not exist Details: Return code form mount was 32 "mount failure". " This was not the same error as in the begining, but this is the one that appears everytime now. I've deleted the mount, and setup a new one, but when I select all the correct options and click ok, and ok to confirm the "create mount" dialog, it just takes me back to the setup (new) page, basically rejecting what i've chosen. Well what a load a crap! It doesn't like the correct settings! If I change the values to the wrong settings however, like user, group, a type: auto, it will accept the settings, but what good does that do! If anyone could please point me in the right direction here that would be awesome! I've tried to look everywhere, manuals, guides, forums, but have not been able to find a solution! Any additional info required just ask. Thanks to all for reading!
I was getting tired at the fact that I couldn't write anything to my NTFS partitions (could read though), so I decided to try and change the permissions...but wait...I don't have enough privileges to do that!!!
So what do I do? OH yeah, I login as a superuser! ....hmmm.... I've been looking for weeks now but cannot find any info on how to do this... Why can't the same dialog come up as usual, asking you to login as admin Perhaps the simplicity would resemble microsoft too much ? But either way, I tried to make it work, but usually my futile attempts didn't damage anything.... simply created about 10 useless, extra items in my /media folder (btw how do I get rid of them now?). I was always able to get the HD mounted and regain access to it (read only ofcourse). But today I did something that caused it to stop working at all: Everything was fine until I changed the configuration window under disk & filesystems window. I changed the "files belong to user (from root(0) to my username(1000))" and "files belong to group (from disk(6) to username(1000))" and mount permission to "any user may enable disable anytime". I hit ok.... and instantly (2sec after) I noticed that status of the mount was "disabled" although I haven't disabled it....uh oh.... enabling didn't help... gave me errors. Reversing what I've done did not help either.... something was screwed up now and I couldn't fix it. No matter what I've tried, even creating a new mount point to the desktop (gave me an error saying a mount point already exists and is in use). I've even tried to disconnect the drive, start up the system without it, and then restart with it so it could possibly be reset (like in windows ), but a prob there too: computer will not boot without my slave drive..... disk boot failure!!!!! this has never happened before with windows, but is happening with kubuntu . The darn thing wont boot just cuz I removed the extra drive!!! what kind of crap is that!?!??!lol i'm furious! So anyway, here I am, the 2nd drive won't work, and I'm out of options... Whenever I hit enable the drive, an error pops up saying: "An error occurred while enabling <mount point>. The system reported: mount: special device <device> does not exist Details: Return code form mount was 32 "mount failure". " This was not the same error as in the begining, but this is the one that appears everytime now. I've deleted the mount, and setup a new one, but when I select all the correct options and click ok, and ok to confirm the "create mount" dialog, it just takes me back to the setup (new) page, basically rejecting what i've chosen. Well what a load a crap! It doesn't like the correct settings! If I change the values to the wrong settings however, like user, group, a type: auto, it will accept the settings, but what good does that do! If anyone could please point me in the right direction here that would be awesome! I've tried to look everywhere, manuals, guides, forums, but have not been able to find a solution! Any additional info required just ask. Thanks to all for reading!
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