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humphreybc
March 18th, 2009, 02:25 PM
I have two physical internal HDDs, sda and sdb - sda had Windows on it and sdb is a media disk with photos/videos and music.

I just installed Ubuntu 8.10 on sda, formatted the Windows partition and all so now Windows is gone for good. It's formatted as EXT3. My "media disk" is still NTFS. It shows up under "Places" and when I click on it it mounts itself and is fine, but how do I tell Ubuntu to mount this drive every time I boot up?

It's located under /media/Media Disk

Thankyou!

taurus
March 18th, 2009, 02:27 PM
Install ntfs-config and use it to configure your ntfs partition.

Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ntfs-config
gksudo ntfs-config

humphreybc
March 18th, 2009, 02:29 PM
See I already have that and when I run it all I get is a window that says:



Enable write support for internal device

Enable write support for external device


The first one is greyed out and the box is unchecked, the second one the box is checked.

taurus
March 18th, 2009, 02:39 PM
Try to unmount that ntfs partition first.

humphreybc
March 18th, 2009, 02:55 PM
Try to unmount that ntfs partition first.

Thanks that worked a charm. :)