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fidgaf
December 5th, 2008, 06:00 PM
I had a small utility in Ubuntu that would automatically mount any selected XP hard drive partition on start-up.

I installed a new hard drive and it got confused so I removed it.

Rather stupidly I forgot to note its name and cannot find it again on searching.

Does anyone know what it is called?

Thanks.




ETA: I would consider changing some script or file to auto-mount. What I have found on doing this is quite confusing and often seems to assume that I'm born knowing what Linux/Ubuntu actually calls each of my hard drive partitions and how that related to their XP name. :D

taurus
December 5th, 2008, 09:33 PM
Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ntfs-config
gksudo ntfs-config

fidgaf
January 28th, 2009, 07:51 PM
Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ntfs-config
gksudo ntfs-config

It loads some XP drives but not all. They manually mount just fine after boot.

I'm suspicious that it was a different utility but can't remember.

stchman
January 28th, 2009, 07:53 PM
Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ntfs-config
gksudo ntfs-config

Remember ntfs-config is for NTFS drives only. Some XP drives are FAT32.

fidgaf
January 28th, 2009, 08:09 PM
All my XP drives and partitions are ntfs.