fstab Error

[Quarkrad]

I've just recently installed 14.04 via a fresh install and get this message: The disk drive for /windows is not ready yet or present. Continue to wait or press S to to skip mounting ... etc. The only windows partition I have is sdb1 UUID=90F846A6F8468B04 - I press S to skip mounting but when I launch File Manager the partition is shown as mounted. My fstab is:

#Entry for /dev/sdb5 :
UUID=b5824ced-b7fb-4530-9e16-70c22fc46e77 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
#Entry for /dev/sdb6 :
UUID=bfd543ac-8ef8-4796-bff6-63c024b2f416 /home ext4 defaults 0 2
/dev/sda1 /media/backup ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_GB.UTF-8 0 0
#Entry for /dev/sdb1 :
UUID=90F846A6F8468B04 /media/sdb1 ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_GB.UTF-8 0 0
#Entry for /dev/sdb7 :
UUID=2B7BF9653C082084 /media/store ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_GB.UTF-8 0 0
UUID=1A05-950C /windows vfat utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0 1
#Entry for /dev/sdb8 :
UUID=42173f4c-cfd4-461b-a9c1-a1f0bdb52c64 none swap sw 0 0

Many thanks.

[SeijiSensei]

Do you, or did you, have a USB device connected when installing? /dev/sdb1 is already being mounted as /media/sdb1. /windows is/was on another device, one formatted as FAT32.

Perhaps you installed Linux using a USB pendrive? If it was in the machine when /etc/fstab was created, it would be listed there.

[Quarkrad]

I did install ubuntu via a pen drive but windows was already installed in the HD. According to gparted windows is on sdb1 and ubuntu on sdb 5 and sdb 6 (/ and /home).

[SeijiSensei]

I don't know what gparted thinks, but /etc/fstab is mounting this device as /windows

UUID=1A05-950C /windows vfat utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0 1

and mounting /dev/sdb1 as /media/sdb1

#Entry for /dev/sdb1 :
UUID=90F846A6F8468B04 /media/sdb1 ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_GB.UTF-8 0 0

If you want to mount /dev/sdb1 to /windows, edit that entry accordingly and remove the other entry for /windows. I'm guessing you no longer have the USB device inserted into the machine, but /etc/fstab wants to mount it, which gives you the error at boot.

[oldfred]

So what is this entry in fstab?

UUID=1A05-950C /windows vfat utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0 1

Post this:
sudo blkid -c /dev/null -o list

If UUID now does not exist comment it out with a # like other comments in fstab.

[Quarkrad]

That did it thank you - I compared the output of your command against fstab and put a # to comment out the line in question.