How To: Reading Files From Windows Partition(NTFS) in Ubuntu Linux
The steps were as follows:
First open the root terminal. Then in Gnome you go to Applications->System Tools->Root Terminal
Once in the root account, you should run this command
# fdisk -l
If you’re not on the root account, precede each command with “sudo”, like this:
# sudo fdisk -l
The next step is to mount the hard drive (assuming that it is /dev/hda1) and put it in a directory:
# mkdir /media/windows
# mount /dev/hda1 /media/windows/ -t ntfs -o nls=utf8,umask=0222
# cd /media/windows
# ls
If you need to unmount the partition, do this:
# umount /media/windows/
If you have trouble with any of this, or a step was unclear, please comment.
11 Comments so far.
Well, your document is quite clear. The only thing is that when I type#mkdir /media/windows/,
I get the answer : cannot create : the file already exists!
you can ignore that error.. and procede to the next step
It works perfectly except for whem I reboot. During the loading screen /media/windows fails to mount and reverts back to the /media/hda1 mount. If you can, please help.
/dev/hda1 /media/windows ntfs -o nls=utf8,umask=0222 0 0
add the above line as the last line in /etc/fstab
and see if that cleans it all up.
I’d help if you can paste the ‘mounting error log’
The process itself goes witout problems, but can we see the files that are in the windows partition, because I would like to acess all my music files in a windows partition, and it would be nearly impossible to put them all in dvd`s and migrate them to a linux partition type, how can I acess these files and or would a different tipe of partition like fat32 be read by linux cause I could try to install win 98 and them put those files in a linux partition later on. Thans for any help!
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This is completely useless and false. No combination of copying the commands will allow me to read the ntfs partition.
Hey, i have just installed windows xp partition came up fine and now just wondering can i edit the windows files, to make it not read only? i have a virus i wish to delete so i can gain access to windows again.
i face a problem,that tell me when i print commad u tell about
that :ntfs not known to home
may be i want ntfs driver,how ia can get that
when i print # mount /dev/hda1 /media/windows/ -t ntfs -o nls=utf8,umask=0222
it tell me error on ntfs ,which is unkonwn for linux