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ziptnf
May 26th, 2008, 12:09 PM
Hey guys,
I am dual booting Vista and Ubuntu (first time user... normal Fedora user, but decided to try Ubuntu). I have two 500 gig storage drives that I merged together in Vista using the Dynamic Disk Drive Manager. Vista lists them as NTFS drives, but Linux lists them as SFS.
ziptnf@omega:~$ sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 74.3 GB, 74355769344 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9039 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xe576a858

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 6488 52111356 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 6489 6513 200812+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda3 6514 9026 20185672+ 8e Linux LVM
/dev/sda4 9027 9039 104422+ 83 Linux

Disk /dev/sdb: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x1a6a534f

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 60802 488385528+ 42 SFS

Disk /dev/sdc: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x1a6a534e

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 * 1 60802 488385528+ 42 SFS

Disk /dev/sdd: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x5c74ae42

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdd1 * 1 30401 244196001 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)


When I try to mount them as NTFS drives, it obviously fails.

ziptnf@omega:/mnt$ sudo mount -t ntfs /dev/sdb1 /mnt/disk1
NTFS signature is missing.
Failed to mount '/dev/sdb1': Invalid argument
The device '/dev/sdb1' doesn't have a valid NTFS.
Maybe you selected the wrong device? Or the whole disk instead of a
partition (e.g. /dev/hda, not /dev/hda1)? Or the other way around?


Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I can mount these drives?

ziptnf
May 28th, 2008, 04:45 PM
Bump, no suggestions?

prshah
May 29th, 2008, 01:19 PM
ziptnf@omega:/mnt$ sudo mount -t ntfs /dev/sdb1 /mnt/disk1
NTFS signature is missing.

Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I can mount these drives?

Take a look at http://forum.linux-ntfs.org/viewtopic.php?t=555 , especially the last post; any joy?

ziptnf
June 2nd, 2008, 07:59 AM
Take a look at http://forum.linux-ntfs.org/viewtopic.php?t=555 , especially the last post; any joy?

That would work if I only had one disk that was dynamic... mounting it like that gave me an NTFS error. I'm beginning to think this might be impossible.