Windows to Ubuntu

[Dontais]

I have 2 drives that I typically use for storage with windows, I usally disconnect them format the main drive and use them. Recently I installed ubuntu and cannot acces the files. I was useing windows xp with ntfs is there a way to read these files within ubuntu?

[russlar]

Yup. Ubuntu can read NTFS volumes, you just need to mount them first.

-sudo fdisk -l
this lists all hard drives that your system can see, usually looking like /dev/sdb. Your drive may have a different path, depending on your setup.

-sudo mount /dev/sdb /mnt/your_mountpoint
This mounts the drive /dev/sdb (you should put in whatever comes out of fdisk -l there instead) at /mnt/your_mountpoint (just an example). You'll need to make a mountpoint (directory) wherever you want to mount hte volumes (usually under /mnt).

[rEbyTer]

This is how i get this to work. I'm watching for devices with:

$ sudo fdisk -l

And i'm going to create a directory under /media folder with

$ sudo mkdir /media/ntfs_drive

and then i'm going to mount that partition (i'm assuming that is /dev/sdb1)

$ sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /media/ntfs_drive

And from this moment you have your drive mounted and you can view it with nautilus under /media/ntfs_drive folder.

If you need to unmount, then use this command:

$ sudo umount /dev/sdb1

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[Dontais]

I tried both your options and when I try to mount it tells me:

user:~$ sudo mount /dev/sda /media/ntfs_drive
mount: you must specify the filesystem type
user:~$