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Windows NTFS Internal Hard Drive not accessible

Asked by srikumar

I have installed Ubuntu 8.10 and WindowsXP on two different hard disks. Both systems work fine on their own. However the ubuntu system will not let me access my windows disk although it recognises the hard disk. It states that I do not have the necessary permissions to access the windows hard drive.

It does the same with my 3rd SATA hard drive.

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Keytwo (keytwo) said : 		#1

Can you provide a "sudo cat /etc/mtab" and a "sudo cat /etc/fstab" please?

Thanks

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Tom (tom6) said : 		#2

Please check that you have Samba-client installed or re-install it - go up to the top taskbar and click on

System - Administration - Synaptic Package Manager

Find the search button and paste in "Samba-client". Does reinstalling that fix the problem?
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If not then please go up to the top taskbar and click on

Applications - Accessories - Terminal

and into the terminal use the mouse to paste

sudo cat /etc/mtab

enter your normal user password, not the SuperUser/Root one and then paste in

sudo cat /etc/fstab

copy all that output (you can roll back up past the top of the terminal console window) and paste it in here so that we can try to see what's going wrong.

Good luck with this
Regards from
Tom :)

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srikumar (ssrikumar) said : 		#3

Thank you for the kind response.
I have Ubutu 6.06 and not 8.10 - hence the problem.
Sorry for the bother.
Thanks again

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Tom (tom6) said : 		#4

It's ok, keep bothering us we like it :) You're welcome

If you can download 8.10 from here
http://www.ubuntulinux.org/getubuntu/download

It's tricky but i think you can install 8.10 over the top of 6.04 without harming data or settings. Use the "Manual" partitioning rather than "Guided" or automatic and then make sure that a box labelled "Format partition?" is UNticked for each partition.

Personally i would always back data up before trying anything like this - perhaps copying you "/home" folder to a new partition or something

Good luck with this
Regards from
Tom :)