Not able to see hda1 problem HELP

gee@the-zone:~$ sudo mount /dev/hda1
fusermount: failed to open /etc/mtab: No such device or address
FUSE mount point creation failed
Unmounting /dev/disk/by-uuid/0A60E38D60E37DB7 ()
user@mycomputer:~$ sudo fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 5382 43230883+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2 5383 9607 33937312+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 9608 9729 979965 82 Linux swap / Solaris

ON mount yet please help

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# -- This file has been automaticly generated by ntfs-config --
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>

proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# Entry for /dev/hda2 :
UUID=b5f25f60-625c-4092-a859-8a32ceb6e8a9 / ext2 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# Entry for /dev/hda1 :
UUID=0A60E38D60E37DB7 /media/hda1 ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 1
# Entry for /dev/hda3 :
UUID=2417d20b-9bbb-4f79-b3a3-12b5e33b69f7 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
/dev/cdrom /media/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
/dev/hda1 /media/hda1 ntfs-3g defaults 0 0
/dev/hda2 /media/hda2 ext2 defaults 0 0

This is what is in the fstab still i can't understand how to mount hda1 to linux ubuntu

Just some suggestions.

Does the /media/hda1 directory exist? What about /etc/mtab, looks ok and is readable/writeable by root?

You seem to have some double entries in fstab, maybe try commenting them out (last two lines; please make a copy before editing anything).

Maybe dmesg would explain something.

It Would be nice to also know what version, variant of ubuntu do you use.

The hda1 exist i can boot up in to winxp but it is no longer mounted on my desktop or file manager. i don't know how to edit the etc/mtab or fstab where i think this my problem how do i edit the fstab it tell me i do not have permission to do so and it only has read olny access. this what i have for fdisk.. Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 5382 43230883+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2 5383 9607 33937312+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 9608 9729 979965 82 Linux swap / Solaris
AND FOR FSTAB I GET THIS:
$ cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# -- This file has been automaticly generated by ntfs-config --
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>

proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# Entry for /dev/hda2 :
UUID=b5f25f60-625c-4092-a859-8a32ceb6e8a9 / ext2 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# Entry for /dev/hda1 :
UUID=0A60E38D60E37DB7 /media/hda1 ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 1
# Entry for /dev/hda3 :
UUID=2417d20b-9bbb-4f79-b3a3-12b5e33b69f7 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
/dev/cdrom /media/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
/dev/hda1 /media/hda1 ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0
/dev/hda2 /media/hda2 ext2 defaults 0 0

how do i get rid of the double entries in fstab ,,,

i am sorry i am running
 DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=7.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=feisty
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 7.04

Another thing, what does: "mount /dev/hda1" (without sudo) return?.

I've wondered if the /media/hda1 directory exists, not the device, try this:
ls -l /media/hda1
(If this happens to return a list of files than just an icon on the desktop is missing, and your system handles the partition correctly.)

About the /etc/mtab, let's do that:
ls -l /etc/mtab
cat /etc/mtab

To check debug messages, type:
dmesg

To make a copy of fstab:
sudo cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab.copy

To revert, change the order of files:
sudo cp /etc/fstab.copy /etc/fstab

To be able to edit fstab do:
sudo gedit /etc/fstab (if under xubuntu replace gedit with mousepad, if under kubuntu replace it with kate).

Note that editing those files that open read only on default may break your system. :) You can first copy outputs of those things above here.

This could be some bug in ntfs-3g so i would update my system or maybe even wait a couple of days for a patch.

user@mycomputer:/home/user# mount -t ntfs /dev/hda1 /media/hda1
mount: /dev/hda1 already mounted or /media/hda1 busy
mount: according to mtab, /dev/hda1 is mounted on /mnt/windowsxp3
root@mycomputer:/home/root# ls -l /media/hda1
total 0

ok i got something i change the fstab a bit so here is what is taken place.

proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# Entry for /dev/hda2 :
UUID=b5f25f60-625c-4092-a859-8a32ceb6e8a9 / ext2 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# Entry for /dev/hda1 :
UUID=0A60E38D60E37DB7 /media/hda1 ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 1
# Entry for /dev/hda3 :
UUID=2417d20b-9bbb-4f79-b3a3-12b5e33b69f7 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
/dev/cdrom /media/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
/dev/hda1 /media/hda1 ntfs-3g defaults 0 0
/dev/hda2 /media/hda2 ext2 defaults 0 0
/dev/hda1 /mnt/windowsxp3 ntfs user,defaults 0 0

OK the last line i put in was a test to see what was going on with this, so far i am able to see the hda1 in mnt folder called windowsxp3 all of it's content but only if i log in as root on the computer if i log in as myself the folder has a red x and state i do not have permissions to view. but if i log in as root no problem i can see the hda1. but i only able to read access not write to hda1.

user@mycomuter:/home/gee# ls -l /etc/mtab
srwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 2007-09-26 01:33 /etc/mtab

user@mycomputer:/home/gee# cat /etc/mtab
cat: /etc/mtab: No such device or address

Well these are the responds i get with last 2 commands ...

Any good reason why your mtab is a socket, not a regular file? I don't think i've ever seen anything like this (the type/permissions normally look like this: -rw-r--r--). If you can't find any and you use the official ubuntu, it's a disk error probably.

It seems you've used the built-in ntfs driver in your line in fstab. It has limited functionality, can't create new files or delete existing. I believe it also has different means of specifying permissions (ie. umask).

PS: Ubuntu has root account disabled on purpose, it's safer to use sudo, gksudo etc.. :)

Am not sure if this will explain more but I am at a lost i just don't get it at this point. oh and mtab is a folder and has the one folder called windowsxp3 that am only able to access by login as root..
user@mycomputer:~$ dmesg
[ 0.000000] Linux version 2.6.20-16-generic (root@terranova) (gcc version 4.1.2 (Ubuntu 4.1.2-0ubuntu4)) #2 SMP Sun Sep 23 19:50:39 UTC 2007 (Ubuntu 2.6.20-16.32-generic)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
[ 0.000000] sanitize start
[ 0.000000] sanitize end
[ 0.000000] copy_e820_map() start: 0000000000000000 size: 000000000009fc00 end: 000000000009fc00 type: 1
[ 0.000000] copy_e820_map() type is E820_RAM
[ 0.000000] copy_e820_map() start: 000000000009fc00 size: 0000000000000400 end: 00000000000a0000 type: 2
[ 0.000000] copy_e820_map() start: 00000000000f0000 size: 0000000000010000 end: 0000000000100000 type: 2
[ 0.000000] copy_e820_map() start: 0000000000100000 size: 000000003ff00000 end: 0000000040000000 type: 1
[ 0.000000] copy_e820_map() type is E820_RAM
[ 0.000000] copy_e820_map() start: 00000000ffff0000 size: 0000000000010000 end: 0000000100000000 type: 2
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000040000000 (usable)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] 128MB HIGHMEM available.
[ 0.000000] 896MB LOWMEM available.
[ 0.000000] Entering add_active_range(0, 0, 262144) 0 entries of 256 used
[ 0.000000] Zone PFN ranges:
[ 0.000000] DMA 0 -> 4096
[ 0.000000] Normal 4096 -> 229376
[ 0.000000] HighMem 229376 -> 262144
[ 0.000000] early_node_map[1] active PFN ranges
[ 0.000000] 0: 0 -> 262144
[ 0.000000] On node 0 totalpages: 262144
[ 0.000000] DMA zone: 32 pages used for memmap
[ 0.000000] DMA zone: 0 pages reserved
[ 0.000000] DMA zone: 4064 pages, LIFO batch:0
[ 0.000000] Normal zone: 1760 pages used for memmap
[ 0.000000] Normal zone: 223520 pages, LIFO batch:31
[ 0.000000] HighMem zone: 256 pages used for memmap
[ 0.000000] HighMem zone: 32512 pages, LIFO batch:7
[ 0.000000] DMI not present or invalid.
[ 0.000000] ACPI: Unable to locate RSDP
[ 0.000000] Allocating PCI resources starting at 50000000 (gap: 40000000:bfff0000)
[ 0.000000] Detected 1535.260 MHz processor.
[ 26.959086] Built 1 zonelists. Total pages: 260096
[ 26.959092] Kernel command line: root=UUID=b5f25f60-625c-4092-a859-8a32ceb6e8a9 ro quiet splash
[ 26.959321] Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- you can enable it with "lapic"
[ 26.959340] mapped APIC to ffffd000 (0180c000)
[ 26.959346] Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
[ 26.959349] Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
[ 26.959369] Initializing CPU#0
[ 26.959489] PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 16384 bytes)
[ 26.961219] Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
[ 26.962627] Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
[ 26.965058] Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
[ 27.015050] Memory: 1028392k/1048576k available (1993k kernel code, 19444k reserved, 900k data, 328k init, 131072k highmem)
[ 27.015065] virtual kernel memory layout:
[ 27.015067] fixmap : 0xfff4e000 - 0xfffff000 ( 708 kB)
[ 27.015068] pkmap : 0xff800000 - 0xffc00000 (4096 kB)
[ 27.015070] vmalloc : 0xf8800000 - 0xff7fe000 ( 111 MB)
[ 27.015072] lowmem : 0xc0000000 - 0xf8000000 ( 896 MB)
[ 27.015073] .init : 0xc03d9000 - 0xc042b000 ( 328 kB)
[ 27.015075] .data : 0xc02f2429 - 0xc03d36d4 ( 900 kB)
[ 27.015076] .text : 0xc0100000 - 0xc02f2429 (1993 kB)
[ 27.015081] Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
[ 27.091302] Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 3073.24 BogoMIPS (lpj=6146485)
[ 27.091380] Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized
[ 27.091399] SELinux: Disabled at boot.
[ 27.091427] Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
[ 27.091720] CPU: After generic identify, caps: 0383f9ff c1cbf9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
[ 27.091734] CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)
[ 27.091738] CPU: L2 Cache: 256K (64 bytes/line)
[ 27.091742] CPU: After all inits, caps: 0383f9ff c1cbf9ff 00000000 00000420 00000000 00000000 00000000
[ 27.091763] Compat vDSO mapped to ffffe000.
[ 27.091775] Remapping vsyscall page to ffffe000
[ 27.091794] Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
[ 27.107560] SMP alternatives: switching to UP code
[ 27.108099] Freeing SMP alternatives: 11k freed
[ 27.108514] Early unpacking initramfs... done
[ 27.518145] CPU0: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1800+ stepping 02
[ 27.518156] SMP motherboard not detected.
[ 27.518160] Local APIC not detected. Using dummy APIC emulation.
[ 27.518240] Brought up 1 CPUs
[ 27.518661] Booting paravirtualized kernel on bare hardware
[ 27.518787] Time: 14:23:32 Date: 08/26/107
[ 27.518845] NET: Registered protocol family 16
[ 27.519009] EISA bus registered
[ 27.595586] PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb430, last bus=1
[ 27.595590] PCI: Using configuration type 1
[ 27.595592] Setting up standard PCI resources
[ 27.606302] ACPI: Interpreter disabled.
[ 27.606309] Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
[ 27.606320] pnp: PnP ACPI: disabled
[ 27.606325] PnPBIOS: Scanning system for PnP BIOS support...
[ 27.606793] PnPBIOS: Found PnP BIOS installation structure at 0xc00fbef0
[ 27.606804] PnPBIOS: PnP BIOS version 1.0, entry 0xf0000:0xbf20, dseg 0xf0000
[ 27.608094] PnPBIOS: 15 nodes reported by PnP BIOS; 15 recorded by driver
[ 27.608151] PCI: Probing PCI hardware
[ 27.608157] PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
[ 27.608742] Boot video device is 0000:01:00.0
[ 27.609959] PCI: Using IRQ router default [1106/3099] at 0000:00:00.0
[ 27.632788] NET: Registered protocol family 8
[ 27.632791] NET: Registered protocol family 20
[ 27.632885] pnp: 00:0b: ioport range 0x3f0-0x3f1 has been reserved
[ 27.633320] PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:01.0
[ 27.633325] IO window: c000-cfff
[ 27.633330] MEM window: e0000000-e1ffffff
[ 27.633335] PREFETCH window: d0000000-dfffffff
[ 27.633353] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:01.0 to 64
[ 27.633397] NET: Registered protocol family 2
[ 27.662639] IP route cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
[ 27.663050] TCP established hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
[ 27.666280] TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
[ 27.668013] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 131072 bind 65536)
[ 27.668021] TCP reno registered
[ 27.678698] checking if image is initramfs... it is
[ 28.440842] Freeing initrd memory: 6749k freed
[ 28.441619] audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
[ 28.441648] audit(1190816612.672:1): initialized
[ 28.441754] highmem bounce pool size: 64 pages
[ 28.441857] VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
[ 28.441894] Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
[ 28.441997] io scheduler noop registered
[ 28.442001] io scheduler anticipatory registered
[ 28.442005] io scheduler deadline registered
[ 28.442018] io scheduler cfq registered (default)
[ 28.442347] isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
[ 28.795464] isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
[ 28.829354] Real Time Clock Driver v1.12ac
[ 28.829475] Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
[ 28.830534] mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
[ 28.831364] RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 65536K size 1024 blocksize
[ 28.831789] input: Macintosh mouse button emulation as /class/input/input0
[ 28.831837] Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
[ 28.831844] ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
[ 28.832151] PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303,PNP0f13] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12
[ 28.832589] serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
[ 28.832596] serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
[ 28.832865] EISA: Probing bus 0 at eisa.0
[ 28.832907] EISA: Detected 0 cards.
[ 28.833200] TCP cubic registered
[ 28.833210] NET: Registered protocol family 1
[ 28.833243] Using IPI No-Shortcut mode
[ 28.833272] Magic number: 7:280:385
[ 28.834205] Freeing unused kernel memory: 328k freed
[ 28.836755] Time: tsc clocksource has been installed.
[ 30.149764] Capability LSM initialized
[ 30.235633] thermal: Unknown symbol acpi_processor_set_thermal_limit
[ 30.991160] Linux Tulip driver version 1.1.14 (December 15, 2004)
[ 30.991653] tulip0: MII transceiver #1 config 3100 status 7869 advertising 05e1.
[ 30.995912] eth0: ADMtek Comet rev 17 at Port 0xd000, 00:14:BF:5A:E1:A0, IRQ 5.
[ 31.039726] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
[ 31.039769] usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
[ 31.039806] usbcore: registered new device driver usb
[ 31.041185] USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v3.0
[ 31.041303] uhci_hcd 0000:00:11.2: UHCI Host Controller
[ 31.041625] uhci_hcd 0000:00:11.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
[ 31.041661] uhci_hcd 0000:00:11.2: irq 3, io base 0x0000d800
[ 31.041858] usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 31.041895] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 31.041912] hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
[ 31.145662] uhci_hcd 0000:00:11.3: UHCI Host Controller
[ 31.145699] uhci_hcd 0000:00:11.3: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
[ 31.145730] uhci_hcd 0000:00:11.3: irq 3, io base 0x0000dc00
[ 31.145881] usb usb2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 31.145917] hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 31.145932] hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
[ 31.249876] uhci_hcd 0000:00:11.4: UHCI Host Controller
[ 31.249916] uhci_hcd 0000:00:11.4: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
[ 31.249948] uhci_hcd 0000:00:11.4: irq 3, io base 0x0000e000
[ 31.250124] usb usb3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 31.250162] hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 31.250179] hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
[ 31.299139] FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
[ 31.358019] VP_IDE: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:11.1
[ 31.358056] VP_IDE: chipset revision 6
[ 31.358059] VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
[ 31.358074] VP_IDE: VIA vt8233 (rev 00) IDE UDMA100 controller on pci0000:00:11.1
[ 31.358086] ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd400-0xd407, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
[ 31.358105] ide1: BM-DMA at 0xd408-0xd40f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
[ 31.358117] Probing IDE interface ide0...
[ 31.385063] usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
[ 31.555008] usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 31.558971] hub 1-1:1.0: USB hub found
[ 31.561883] hub 1-1:1.0: 4 ports detected
[ 31.772554] hda: WDC WD800JB-00JJC0, ATA DISK drive
[ 31.908266] usb 1-2: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3
[ 32.090114] usb 1-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 32.443668] ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
[ 32.443779] Probing IDE interface ide1...
[ 32.808763] usb 1-1.2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 4
[ 32.939676] usb 1-1.2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 33.148187] usb 1-1.4: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 5
[ 33.273123] usb 1-1.4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 33.277079] hub 1-1.4:1.0: USB hub found
[ 33.279985] hub 1-1.4:1.0: 4 ports detected
[ 33.306314] hdc: Memorex 52MAX 325216AJv2, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
[ 33.390817] usbcore: registered new interface driver hiddev
[ 33.404986] input: Microsoft Comfort Curve Keyboard 2000 as /class/input/input1
[ 33.405013] input: USB HID v1.11 Keyboard [Microsoft Comfort Curve Keyboard 2000] on usb-0000:00:11.2-2
[ 33.425939] input: Microsoft Comfort Curve Keyboard 2000 as /class/input/input2
[ 33.425971] input: USB HID v1.11 Device [Microsoft Comfort Curve Keyboard 2000] on usb-0000:00:11.2-2
[ 33.426011] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
[ 33.426017] drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver
[ 34.089168] hdd: DVDRW IDE 16X, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
[ 34.145801] ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
[ 34.155680] SCSI subsystem initialized
[ 34.163938] libata version 2.20 loaded.
[ 34.181082] hda: max request size: 128KiB
[ 34.201893] hda: 156301488 sectors (80026 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(33)
[ 34.203681] hda: cache flushes supported
[ 34.203764] hda: hda1 hda2 hda3
[ 34.249338] hdc: ATAPI 52X DVD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 1536kB Cache, UDMA(33)
[ 34.249355] Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
[ 34.256123] hdd: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM DVD-R CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache
[ 34.562921] Attempting manual resume
[ 34.562928] swsusp: Resume From Partition 3:3
[ 34.562930] PM: Checking swsusp image.
[ 34.563238] PM: Resume from disk failed.
[ 45.686779] NET: Registered protocol family 17
[ 47.219623] 0000:00:0e.0: tulip_stop_rxtx() failed (CSR5 0xfc664010 CSR6 0xff972113)
[ 47.219638] eth0: Setting full-duplex based on MII#1 link partner capability of 41e1.
[ 47.444841] pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
[ 47.448216] shpchp: Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.4
[ 47.587108] Linux agpgart interface v0.102 (c) Dave Jones
[ 47.624082] agpgart: Detected VIA KT266/KY266x/KT333 chipset
[ 47.640916] agpgart: AGP aperture is 256M @ 0xc0000000
[ 47.664611] irda_init()
[ 47.664653] NET: Registered protocol family 23
[ 48.116889] input: PC Speaker as /class/input/input3
[ 48.801884] usbcore: registered new interface driver xpad
[ 48.801893] drivers/usb/input/xpad.c: driver for Xbox controllers v0.1.6
[ 48.947705] input: ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse as /class/input/input4
[ 49.310226] via82xx: Assuming DXS channels with 48k fixed sample rate.
[ 49.310233] Please try dxs_support=5 option
[ 49.310236] and report if it works on your machine.
[ 49.310238] For more details, read ALSA-Configuration.txt.
[ 49.310398] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:11.5 to 64
[ 50.087007] fuse init (API version 7.8)
[ 50.214328] lp: driver loaded but no devices found
[ 50.287673] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbserial
[ 50.290553] drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB Serial support registered for generic
[ 50.399106] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbserial_generic
[ 50.399118] drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB Serial Driver core
[ 50.411037] drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB Serial support registered for Handspring Visor / Palm OS
[ 50.413880] drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB Serial support registered for Sony Clie 3.5
[ 50.416673] drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB Serial support registered for Sony Clie 5.0
[ 50.421053] visor 1-1.2:1.0: Handspring Visor / Palm OS converter detected
[ 50.429755] usb 1-1.2: Handspring Visor / Palm OS converter now attached to ttyUSB0
[ 50.438107] usb 1-1.2: Handspring Visor / Palm OS converter now attached to ttyUSB1
[ 50.438148] usbcore: registered new interface driver visor
[ 50.438153] drivers/usb/serial/visor.c: USB HandSpring Visor / Palm OS driver
[ 50.494201] Adding 979956k swap on /dev/disk/by-uuid/2417d20b-9bbb-4f79-b3a3-12b5e33b69f7. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:979956k
[ 50.832837] NET: Registered protocol family 10
[ 50.832997] lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
[ 51.234130] NTFS driver 2.1.28 [Flags: R/O MODULE].
[ 51.302058] NTFS volume version 3.1.
[ 58.403017] powernow_k7: Unknown symbol acpi_processor_notify_smm
[ 58.403071] powernow_k7: Unknown symbol acpi_processor_unregister_performance
[ 58.403172] powernow_k7: Unknown symbol acpi_processor_register_performance
[ 58.451417] acpi_cpufreq: Unknown symbol acpi_processor_notify_smm
[ 58.451471] acpi_cpufreq: Unknown symbol acpi_processor_unregister_performance
[ 58.451587] acpi_cpufreq: Unknown symbol acpi_processor_preregister_performance
[ 58.451647] acpi_cpufreq: Unknown symbol acpi_processor_register_performance
[ 61.266226] [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
[ 61.286411] [drm] Initialized radeon 1.25.0 20060524 on minor 0
[ 62.559213] agpgart: Found an AGP 2.0 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0.
[ 62.559366] agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 1x mode
[ 62.559525] agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 1x mode
[ 62.925683] [drm] Setting GART location based on new memory map
[ 62.925703] [drm] Loading R300 Microcode
[ 62.925791] [drm] writeback test succeeded in 1 usecs
[ 67.459208] apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.16ac)
[ 72.795907] Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 <email address hidden>).
[ 72.954861] NFSD: Using /var/lib/nfs/v4recovery as the NFSv4 state recovery directory
[ 72.955472] NFSD: starting 90-second grace period
[ 73.973489] vboxdrv: Trying to deactivate the NMI watchdog permanently...
[ 73.973499] vboxdrv: Successfully done.
[ 74.315290] vmmon: module license 'unspecified' taints kernel.
[ 74.327240] /dev/vmmon[5144]: Module vmmon: registered with major=10 minor=165
[ 74.327650] /dev/vmmon[5144]: Module vmmon: initialized
[ 74.447083] /dev/vmnet: open called by PID 5170 (vmnet-bridge)
[ 74.447460] /dev/vmnet: hub 0 does not exist, allocating memory.
[ 74.447648] /dev/vmnet: port on hub 0 successfully opened
[ 74.447823] bridge-eth0: enabling the bridge
[ 74.447971] bridge-eth0: up
[ 74.448093] bridge-eth0: already up
[ 74.448230] bridge-eth0: attached
[ 74.515339] /dev/vmnet: open called by PID 5184 (vmnet-natd)
[ 74.515688] /dev/vmnet: hub 8 does not exist, allocating memory.
[ 74.515880] /dev/vmnet: port on hub 8 successfully opened
[ 78.595963] eth0: no IPv6 routers present
[ 84.475051] /dev/vmnet: open called by PID 5517 (vmnet-netifup)
[ 84.475477] /dev/vmnet: hub 1 does not exist, allocating memory.
[ 84.475672] /dev/vmnet: port on hub 1 successfully opened
[ 84.491924] /dev/vmnet: open called by PID 5518 (vmnet-netifup)
[ 84.492316] /dev/vmnet: port on hub 8 successfully opened
[ 84.560117] /dev/vmnet: open called by PID 5540 (vmnet-dhcpd)
[ 84.560410] /dev/vmnet: port on hub 1 successfully opened
[ 84.576046] /dev/vmnet: open called by PID 5539 (vmnet-dhcpd)
[ 84.576302] /dev/vmnet: port on hub 8 successfully opened
[ 94.736349] vmnet1: no IPv6 routers present
[ 95.415353] vmnet8: no IPv6 routers present

Nothing that would seem significant in dmesg, fuse seems to load, ntfs driver also.

I've checked on three machines (2 x feisty, gutsy) and all have /etc/mtab looking like this:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 847 2007-09-26 21:01 /etc/mtab

And a line for every mounted file systems can be found in it (including main partition and special file systems like proc or devshm). So i would say something is out of order here.

But i may not know about something especially if you're using some automatix, ultimate, wubi or other distribution.

There are two drivers that can handle ntfs partitions. One built in kernel ntfs, and the other fuse based ntfs-3g.

To make your files accessible (readable, writeable, executable) by everyone add "umask=0000" to your fstab line (without quotes, after the comma, before this two zeroes). This may not be the safest thing to do.

Alternatively you can type "id" in terminal to know your uid and gid and instead of umask add "uid=1000,gid=1000" to make the files on windows partition belong to your user not root. (again, after a comma, no quotes, before zeroes; replace 1000s with proper values).

When you edit fstab, better leave just one line for your hda1 (put a hash before the other two).

Ok i think i am on the right track i found a file in etc/fstab the filed was fstab.pre-ntsf-config . I copied that to the fstab but made sure all uuid where correct. It work i rebooted and wow hda1 came right up icon and all right on the desktop. i then removed the program called ntsf-config and all Virtualbox, Vmware just to be on the safe side.. The one old things i still can't write to this drive hda1 yet and now i can unmount a cdrom drive i can't eject any cd out of it's tray. it say Cannot unmount volume You are not privileged to unmount the volume '. listed below is what's in my fstab file.......

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# /dev/hda2
UUID=b5f25f60-625c-4092-a859-8a32ceb6e8a9 / ext2 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /dev/hda1
UUID=0A60E38D60E37DB7 /media/hda1 ntfs defaults,nls=utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0 1
# /dev/hda3
UUID=2417d20b-9bbb-4f79-b3a3-12b5e33b69f7 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
/dev/hdd /media/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0

3 line down where it begain uuid line might me wrong if you can help with this am not to sure why did accrues ..

I believe you're working around the problem, using "ntfs" in your fstab means you're using the old driver with limited capabilities. The new one probably doesn't work because of this mtab.

You should be able to modify existing files on hda1 (change umask to all zeroes to be sure it's not a permission problem).

For cdrom i would just use lines from the old fstab, instead of these you have now.

Sorry, i can't help any more.

thanks for all your help.. you guys are great thanks so much