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Old July 31st, 2008   #1
amaconinatl
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Exclamation cant force mount hard drive

i need help force mounting my hard drive i crashed my windows vista and the device indicates an unclean shutdown. faild to mount'dev/sda1':Operation not supported mount is denied because NTFS is marked to be in use. The options i have are to get ana adapter for my desktop computer to put my laptop hard drive in for force mount the hard drive in ubuntu. Ubuntu automatically named my hard disk " " so it told me to put this into terminal
code:
mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /media -o force

when i put that in terminal it says only root can do that what do i do
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