Can't mount NTFS in 9.10

[cartisdm]

I can't mount the NTFS partition of my external harddrive now that I have a fresh install of 9.10. I was working fine off this drive using a LiveCD of 8.10 and didn't have a problem. I downloaded NTFS Configuration Manager and I'm still getting this error?

(see screenshot)

EDIT: I just noticed that I can access (read/write) the NTFS partition of my internal harddrive that I have Windows 7 installed on so Ubuntu must not like my external HDD for some reason. Any ideas?

[danastasio]

try

sudo apt-get install ntfsprogs

its possible that the install method that you used didn't install this for whatever reason.

[oldfred]

If you shut down abnormally or if in windows it would want to run checkdisk then Ubuntu will not normally mount it. Some flag is set somewhere. There is a way to force mount it but if there is corruption you can damage that file(s). The checkdisk in windows will repair any damage or at least return the drive to mountable configuration.

[cartisdm]

try

sudo apt-get install ntfsprogs

its possible that the install method that you used didn't install this for whatever reason.

No luck with this method.

If you shut down abnormally or if in windows it would want to run checkdisk then Ubuntu will not normally mount it. Some flag is set somewhere. There is a way to force mount it but if there is corruption you can damage that file(s). The checkdisk in windows will repair any damage or at least return the drive to mountable configuration.

I actually just ejected it out of a Mac computer (making sure to properly unmount it first). How can I try forcing it to mount?

[taurus]

Use ntfsfix (part of the ntfsprogs package) to mount your ntfs partition.

[cartisdm]

Use ntfsfix (part of the ntfsprogs package) to mount your ntfs partition.

I tried it and still no luck. Here are my results

daniel@daniel-ubuntu:~$ sudo fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000001

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1          13      102400    7  HPFS/NTFS
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda2              13        7927    63562798    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3            7928       14593    53544645    5  Extended
/dev/sda5            7928       14315    51311578+  83  Linux
/dev/sda6           14316       14593     2233003+  82  Linux swap / Solaris

Disk /dev/sdb: 300.1 GB, 300090728448 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 36483 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xab8c8f26

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1               1       31262   251111983+   b  W95 FAT32
/dev/sdb2           31263       36484    41945683+   7  HPFS/NTFS
daniel@daniel-ubuntu:~$ sudo ntfsfix /dev/sdb2
Mounting volume... OK
Processing of $MFT and $MFTMirr completed successfully.
NTFS volume version is 3.1.
NTFS partition /dev/sdb2 was processed successfully.
daniel@daniel-ubuntu:~$

[taurus]

And have you tried to mount it by hand, from a terminal, again?

sudo /media/sdb2
sudo mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdb2 /media/sdb2
df -h

[cartisdm]

And have you tried to mount it by hand, from a terminal, again?

sudo /media/sdb2
sudo mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdb2 /media/sdb2
df -h

I didn't try it through the terminal. Right now I am booting up my Windows XP cd and I'm gonna try to chkdsk the NTFS partition. If that doesn't work I will try mounting it in a terminal in ubuntu

[s3a]

sudo apt-get install ntfs-3g

[cartisdm]

And have you tried to mount it by hand, from a terminal, again?

sudo /media/sdb2
sudo mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdb2 /media/sdb2
df -h

Same result

daniel@daniel-ubuntu:~$ sudo mkdir /media/sb2
daniel@daniel-ubuntu:~$ sudo mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdb2 /media/sb2

Failed to read last sector (83891360): Invalid argument
HINTS: Either the volume is a RAID/LDM but it wasn't setup yet,
   or it was not setup correctly (e.g. by not using mdadm --build ...),
   or a wrong device is tried to be mounted,
   or the partition table is corrupt (partition is smaller than NTFS),
   or the NTFS boot sector is corrupt (NTFS size is not valid).
Failed to mount '/dev/sdb2': Invalid argument
The device '/dev/sdb2' doesn't seem to have a valid NTFS.
Maybe the wrong device is used? Or the whole disk instead of a
partition (e.g. /dev/sda, not /dev/sda1)? Or the other way around?
daniel@daniel-ubuntu:~$