mounting hard drive because of disfunctional wiindows

there is a way to mount the harddisk from the live cd but it would be nice to see the error. try mounting it (to get the error) and when u get the error in a terminal give the command " dmesg | tail " (without the quotes) and paste the output here. probably the reason u cant mount it, is because the computer was not properly shutdown and the file system remained open

You will probably have to manually mount the drive, and possible use the force option. To get better help on what command actually needs to be use, please open a terminal from Applications-> Accessories-> Terminal and type

sudo fdisk -lu

(Note this is lowercase of SUDO FDISK -LU)

Please tell... the output of this command.

Thank you

 This was the output of the command you gave me:

Disk /dev/hda: 60.0 GB, 60011642880 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7296 cylinders, total 117210240 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x994a994a

???? Device Boot????? Start????? ? ? ? ? ? End???????? ? Blocks??? Id??? System
/dev/hdal??? *?????????????? 63????? 117194174????? 58597056???? 7??? HPFS/NTFS

Thanks,

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From: Wyatt Smith <email address hidden>
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Sent: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 4:03 am
Subject: Re: [Question #52061]: mounting hard drive because of disfunctional wiindows

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Wyatt Smith proposed the following answer:
You will probably have to manually mount the drive, and possible use the
force option. To get better help on what command actually needs to be
use, please open a terminal from Applications-> Accessories-> Terminal
and type

sudo fdisk -lu

(Note this is lowercase of SUDO FDISK -LU)

Please tell... the output of this command.

Thank you

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 Here's the Details when it says Cannot mount volume:

Unable to mount volume

Details
$LogFile indicates unclean shutdown (0, 0) Failed to mount '/dev/hdal': Operation not supported Mount is denied because NTFS is marked to be in use. Choose one action: Choice 1: If you have Windows then disconnect the external devices by?????????? clicking on the 'Safely Remove Hardware' icon in the Windows??????????? taskbar then shutdown Windows cleanly. Choice 2: If you don't have Windows then you can use the 'force' option for???????? your own responsibility. For example type on the command line:???????????????? mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/hdal /media/disk -o force?????? Or add the option to the relevant row in the /etc/fstab file:????????????????????? /dev/hdal /media/disk ntfs-3g force 0 0

I don't understand what this means, but that's what it says.

Thank you,

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From: Nikolas <email address hidden>
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Sent: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 2:46 am
Subject: Re: [Question #52061]: mounting hard drive because of disfunctional wiindows

Your question #52061 on gnome-terminal in ubuntu changed:
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Nikolas requested for more information:
there is a way to mount the harddisk from the live cd but it would be
nice to see the error. try mounting it (to get the error) and when u get
the error in a terminal give the command " dmesg | tail " (without the
quotes) and paste the output here. probably the reason u cant mount it,
is because the computer was not properly shutdown and the file system
remained open

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Please try to use testdisk on that partition https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/testdisk

Thank you

I have the same problem but still dont understand what to do now.... Can somebody help me?