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    Trouble Mounting Windows Partition

    I wanted a dual boot laptop with intrepid installed. After repartitioning the hard drive using the application that came with VISTA (my first mistake), all went well with the install. I can boot into either Kubuntu or Vista with no problem. Next step was to mount the Windows partition so I can access all the files from Kubuntu. Found plenty of help on how to do it, but when I try to mount the disk, I get the following:

    isk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
    255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
    Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
    Disk identifier: 0xeec4d366

    Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
    /dev/sda1 1 192 1536000 27 Unknown
    Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
    /dev/sda2 * 192 10289 81102844 7 HPFS/NTFS
    /dev/sda3 10290 14593 34571880 5 Extended
    /dev/sda5 10290 14410 33101901 83 Linux
    /dev/sda6 14411 14593 1469916 82 Linux swap / Solaris
    kim@kim:~$ sudo mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/vista
    ntfs_attr_pread_i: ntfs_pread failed: Input/output error
    Failed to read NTFS $Bitmap: Input/output error
    NTFS is either inconsistent, or you have hardware faults, or you have a
    SoftRAID/FakeRAID hardware. In the first case run chkdsk /f on Windows
    then reboot into Windows TWICE. The usage of the /f parameter is very
    important! If you have SoftRAID/FakeRAID then first you must activate
    it and mount a different device under the /dev/mapper/ directory, (e.g.
    /dev/mapper/nvidia_eahaabcc1). Please see the 'dmraid' documentation
    for the details.

    I ran Chkdsk no problems identified. Installed ntfs-config with no better luck. Found other instances of the problem with a google search, but no real answers.

    Any help will be appreciated.


    Here is fstab if it helps:

    # /etc/fstab: static file system information.
    #
    # -- This file has been automaticly generated by ntfs-config --
    #
    # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>

    proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
    # Entry for /dev/sda5 :
    UUID=06448595-e7ac-4201-a5d8-30cf3685269e / ext3 relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1
    # Entry for /dev/sda6 :
    UUID=af0457db-b3c7-4c2c-af21-fa5aa57b52fd none swap sw 0 0
    /dev/sda2 /media/SQ004328V04 ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0

    #2
    Re: Trouble Mounting Windows Partition

    You didn't identify the version of Kubuntu you installed. Always a helpful piece of info.

    You'll need to install ntfs-config (which will also install ntfs-3g (a required dependency package)) in order to be able to access Windoze (NTFS) file systems. Once installed, you should have a new entry in K Menu that will allow you to setup access to your Windoze partitions.
    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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      #3
      Re: Trouble Mounting Windows Partition

      We are dealing with a very similar problem in another thread.

      http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3100341.0

      You might try the "force" option in your mount command and see if that works.

      From man ntfs-3g:

      force Force the mounting even if the NTFS logfile is unclean. The log‐
      file will be unconditionally cleared. Use this option with cau‐
      tion and for your own responsibility.

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        #4
        Re: Trouble Mounting Windows Partition

        I'm a newbie, so maybe I got it wrong, but I thought intrepid (see first sentence) was the version name. In any event I installed Kubuntu 8.10. I tried a force mount, no good. As I mentioned in original post, Ntfs-config is installed. Whats weird is it does not recognize the sda2 partition. Only the sda1 is listed. Interestingly, Sda2 is listed in Dolphin but when you try to open it, after asking for a password, nothing happens.

        I'll keep watching the other thread that you referenced but I have a feeling my problem is somehow related to the way the partitions were set up. So far, that thread hasn't gone down that rabbit hole.

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          #5
          Re: Trouble Mounting Windows Partition

          You do still have windows installed, so can you use windows to run chkdsk /f on your windows partition. Then shut windows down normally and see if that fixes the problem. The poster in the other thread no longer has windows installed and does not have that option.

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            #6
            Re: Trouble Mounting Windows Partition

            Thanks but I already tried that too. I'm thinking it has something to do with where I partitioned the disk when I shrunk it to install Kubuntu. I think the size I ended up with is somehow throwing things off. I just don't know a thing about partition sizes so I'm at a loss as to what might be off and what trouble it might cause.

            Then again, I could be totally wrong........

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