[ubuntu] cant force mount hard drive

[amaconinatl]

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

[lordadi]

Hi,


If it says that only root can do that, then use this

sudo mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /media -o force

The sudo part gives you admin access and the command as run as an adminstrator. It will ask you for your password. Please remember that when you type in your password, you will NOT see it or asterisks or anything, however the password is being accepted. Finish typing it and hit enter.

This assumes that the command provided is correct.

However, I am not sure as to the safety of this command.


Cheers,


Lordadi.

[sisco311]

If you are dual booting, then boot in windows and
make a clean shutdown(no hibernation).

If you really want to force mount the partition:

sudo mkdir /media/windows
sudo mount -t ntfs /dev/sda1 /media/windows -o force

[amaconinatl]

ok thank you but i forgot to mention im running ubuntu off disk not installed so i dont have a password

[amaconinatl]

ok nvm it worked didnt ask for password tyvm ppl