No longer seeing Window's partition

[Gumper]

My Kubuntu installation recently developed a strange issue. I'm no longer able to see my Windows partition. Before yesterday I was able to read and write to the files on my windows partition, but now they won't even show up.

Any idea what to look for?

Here's my fstab file in case it helps.

Thanks,

Gumper

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point>  <type> <options>    <dump> <pass>
proc      /proc      proc  defaults    0    0
# /dev/sda3
UUID=dccfdad6-3a79-4a7e-ae9b-7c3bafc56230 /        ext3  defaults,errors=remount-ro 0    1
# /dev/sda2
UUID=42c1df7b-b066-4c3a-939f-c387c7654350 /home      ext3  defaults    0    2
# /dev/sda1
UUID=F49C96CC9C96892E /media/sda1   ntfs  defaults,umask=007,gid=46 0    1
# /dev/sda4
UUID=7535fc5b-1b39-4d41-b5db-8ac1d344efd3 none      swap  sw       0    0
/dev/hda    /media/cdrom0  udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec 0    0
/dev/fd0    /media/floppy0 auto  rw,user,noauto,exec 0    0

[SheeEttin]

Re: No longer seeing Window's partition

NTFS? Install "ntfs-3g" and "ntfs-config" through Adept, then run "ntfs-config" from a terminal.

[Gumper]

Re: No longer seeing Window's partition

Thanks SheeEttin. After I posted my message I installed ntfs-config and when I ran it, it gave me a message about my windows partition not be unmounted correctly, or something like that. I then remembered that the last time I shut down windows I had to do it with the main power switch as it was just sitting there for ever and not doing anything. So I rebooted back into window and then shut it down correctly and now everything is ok.

Good old Windows

[Teunis]

Re: No longer seeing Window's partition

Hmm, neverexperienced that one, good tip!

But ext3 has similar behaviour, I use Ext2IFS to access it from windows and sometimes it is impossible to mount it in Windows.
Doing a fschk on the ext3 partition always fixes this problem.

This is one step more than described here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=358241

[monte48lowes]

Re: No longer seeing Window's partition

I experienced a similar issue with my laptop. If the NTFS drives are not unmounted cleanly they will not show up. This in my opinion is a good thing.

Mike