SOLVED: No permission to open my external hdd

[dibl]

Re: No permission to open my external hdd

Yep, I think you're "zeroing" in on it!

Good job!

[monte48lowes]

Re: No permission to open my external hdd

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.

Mike

[Snowhog]

Re: No permission to open my external hdd

dibl -

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?

[integr8e]

Re: No permission to open my external hdd

Oops, I believe I've come in at the tail end of this dilemma

Let me know if I may be of assistance

[VirusZero]

Re: No permission to open my external hdd

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:

/dev/sdb1 /media/USB_HD ntfs-3g defaults,force 0 0

The force mount wouldn't hurt anything would it?

[Snowhog]

Re: No permission to open my external hdd

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:

/dev/sdb1 /media/USB_HD ntfs-3g defaults,force 0 2

[VirusZero]

Re: No permission to open my external hdd

Ok, that's great then. And again, thank you for all your help and patience in solving this problem.

[Snowhog]

Re: No permission to open my external hdd

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.

[VirusZero]

Re: No permission to open my external hdd

Change made, the HD now mounts, the files can be accessed, so the problem is solved. Thanks Snowhog and Dibl.

[Snowhog]

Re: No permission to open my external hdd

You're quite welcome. Happy to know that you now have access to your USB HD. Cool. 8) And don't forget dibl.

[Snowhog]

Re: No permission to open my external hdd

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

[integr8e]

Re: SOLVED: No permission to open my external hdd

I'm glad to see you're successful, GOOD STUFF !!!

Now back to my homework . . .
:P