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I am going to say, that Master snow and Master dibl may have fixed the problem. This "bug" of windows can be rather annoying. I don't know why windows doesn't cleanly unmount the drives during shutdown. Linux is smart though in refusing to mount the drive.
Would your ntfs-3g nouser,defaults,atime,exec,force 0 2 be a better use than ntfs-3g defaults,nls=utf8,umask=007 0 2 I suggested?
Windows no longer obstructs my view.
Using Kubuntu Linux since March 23, 2007.
"It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data." - Sherlock Holmes
Ok, after booting to windows, and safely ejecting the usb HD, I returned to Kubuntu and re-entered the command, here's what it said when I executed "sudo mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /media/USB_HD
" :
Volume is scheduled for check. Please boot into Windows TWICE, or
use the 'force' mount option. For example type on the command line:
mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /media/USB_HD -o force
Or add the option to the relevant row in the /etc/fstab file:
No. Go ahead and change the fstab entry for the USB HD as the message is telling you. But change the last digit of the line from 0 to 2 so it looks like this:
Windows no longer obstructs my view.
Using Kubuntu Linux since March 23, 2007.
"It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data." - Sherlock Holmes
Well, it 'ain't' solved until you've booted, can see your HD and actually access it, so make the change, reboot and post back.
Windows no longer obstructs my view.
Using Kubuntu Linux since March 23, 2007.
"It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data." - Sherlock Holmes
You're quite welcome. Happy to know that you now have access to your USB HD. Cool. 8) And don't forget dibl.
Windows no longer obstructs my view.
Using Kubuntu Linux since March 23, 2007.
"It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data." - Sherlock Holmes
Good Forum protocol: Go to your original post in this thread. Click the modify button and change the Subject line to read:
SOLVED: No permission to open my external hdd
Windows no longer obstructs my view.
Using Kubuntu Linux since March 23, 2007.
"It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data." - Sherlock Holmes
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