NTFS partitions

[zhchua]

I have 3 partitions on my HD that is NTFS.

I am currently running WinXP, but recently, my WinXP crashed and just refused to boot up for no reason.

I have Ubuntu's install cd on hand right now, and I want to make the switch.

My main concern is whether or not I'll lose data on 2 of my NTFS partitions if I install it on one of my NTFS partitions

 

[eeyrjmr]

if you install on one of those partitions, yes data on that partition will be lost!

 

[zhchua]

What about the rest of the partitions?

How do I access it in Ubuntu?

 

[eeyrjmr]

Other NTFS partitions are visible to Linux, whether Ubuntu shipps with NTFS-kernel support? I dont know, but it is easy to enable it

you can READ fine, writing is a different story tho

 

[zhchua]

Okay, Ubuntu's installed, sacrificed one partition.

Now where would my two partition drives be located?

 

[BillLeeLee]

Do you only have one hard drive?

Use fdisk to list partitions on the drive.

sudo fdisk /dev/hda

Then press 'p' to list partitions on the drive.

They will probably be called something like /dev/hda1 or /dev/hda2. And then create a folder in /mnt (or /media which is whre Ubuntu usually sets mount points to), and execute this command.

mount -t ntfs /dev/hdX <destination>

Replace X with whatever partition you want to mount (a1, a2, etc.) and replace <destination> with whatever directory is the mount point.

 

[eeyrjmr]

Ubuntu (which uses GNOME) should be listing all yr partitions in hte "computer" icon

IF UBUNTU/GNOME can mount them they will be there

 

[zhchua]

Done, now the problem is, I can only access the mount directories as root, I can't open them up via desktop as my desktop is in usermode.

I tried to chown the two directories, to no avail.

Do you only have one hard drive?

Use fdisk to list partitions on the drive.

sudo fdisk /dev/hda

Then press 'p' to list partitions on the drive.

They will probably be called something like /dev/hda1 or /dev/hda2. And then create a folder in /mnt (or /media which is whre Ubuntu usually sets mount points to), and execute this command.

mount -t ntfs /dev/hdX <destination>

Replace X with whatever partition you want to mount (a1, a2, etc.) and replace <destination> with whatever directory is the mount point.