Ubuntu 8.10 -HP Pavilion dv6135nr Entertainment Notebook PC

[p4cldba]

Hi,

I have this laptop . windows XP was installed previously . it crashed so I am trying to recover my data and install Ubuntu . With Ubuntu Live CD I am able to see the hard disk but I am not able to mount the hard disk . it is failing . so what are my options.

Any help is appreciated.

thanks
Pk

[eaidoido]

i've seen a similar issue happen when trying to boot drives from within the live environment. however, it suggested using 'mount' with a few other flags set. did you not get any such message?

[albinootje]

Hi,

I have this laptop . windows XP was installed previously . it crashed so I am trying to recover my data and install Ubuntu . With Ubuntu Live CD I am able to see the hard disk but I am not able to mount the hard disk . it is failing . so what are my options.

Can you post the error message(s) if there were any ?
And post the output of the following in a terminal:


sudo fdisk -l
sudo apt-get install ntfsprogs ntfs-config
sudo ntfs-config

[p4cldba]

Thanks Guys.

I was able to do finally with the below syntax

sudo mkdir /media/windows
sudo mount /dev/hda1 /media/windows/ -t ntfs -o nls=utf8,umask=0222