Can't see Windows XP partition in Ubuntu on dual boot laptop

This link my help you:

http://siddharthdawara.blogspot.com/2006/08/mounting-your-windows-partition-on.html

change "mnt" directories name to "media" name:

sudo cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab_backup
sudo vi /etc/fstab

Make the directory where you want your drive mounted, I chose /mnt/windows

sudo mkdir /media/windows

The syntax for the fstab files is:

file system mount point type options dump pass

So you append the following lines to your file:

file system mount point type options dump pass
/dev/hda1 /media/windows ntfs'+' noatime,defaults,users,ro,umask=0 0 0

NOTE: My code div isn't handling the width overflow properly. There's a couple of tabs after ntfs, and the '+' indicates the same line, not a new line.

hda1 is mostly your C drive. If your drive is FAT32 you change the ntfs to vfat.

if you don't feel like mounting it at boot time then just make the directory and run this at a terminal

sudo mount /dev/hda1 /media/windows ntfs'+' noatime,defaults,users,ro,umask=0 0 0

NOTE: My code div isn't handling the width overflow properly. There's a couple of spaces after ntfs, and the '+' indicates the same line, not a new line.

and to unmount

sudo umount /media/windows

Hope it helps.

This link my help you:

http://siddharthdawara.blogspot.com/2006/08/mounting-your-windows-partition-on.html

change "mnt" directories name to "media" name:

sudo cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab_backup
sudo gedit /etc/fstab

Make the directory where you want your drive mounted, I chose /media/windows

sudo mkdir /media/windows

The syntax for the fstab files is:

file system mount point type options dump pass

So you append the following lines to your file:

file system mount point type options dump pass
/dev/hda1 /media/windows ntfs'+' noatime,defaults,users,ro,umask=0 0 0

NOTE: My code div isn't handling the width overflow properly. There's a couple of tabs after ntfs, and the '+' indicates the same line, not a new line.

hda1 is mostly your C drive. If your drive is FAT32 you change the ntfs to vfat.

if you don't feel like mounting it at boot time then just make the directory and run this at a terminal

sudo mount /dev/hda1 /media/windows ntfs'+' noatime,defaults,users,ro,umask=0 0 0

NOTE: My code div isn't handling the width overflow properly. There's a couple of spaces after ntfs, and the '+' indicates the same line, not a new line.

and to unmount

sudo umount /media/windows

Hope it helps.

If you are still having problems, to get better help please open a terminal from Applications-> Accessories-> Terminal and type

sudo fdisk -lu

Please tell... the output of this command and we can help with manual mount command or automounting with fstab

Thanks a lot guys, I have to try these thing but here is the sudo fdisk -lu output.
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:~$ sudo fdisk -lu

Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders, total 234441648 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xccd5ccd5

   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 63 71682029 35840983+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 71682030 224283464 76300717+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda3 224283465 234436544 5076540 1c Hidden W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/sda5 221199048 224283464 1542208+ b W95 FAT32
/dev/sda6 71682156 110752109 19534977 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 110752173 114655904 1951866 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda8 114655968 173244959 29294496 83 Linux

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My Windows XP is on sda1

Edmund

Thanks Wyatt Smith, that solved my question.