Ugh… I have installed Ubuntu 7.10 and am having significant trouble mounting my secondary hard drive without reformatting it. I need to keep the NTFS format until I get some data off of it.
When choosing ‘mount drive’ by either double-clicking the volume within the left-hand pane of the file browser, or right-clicking and choosing mount, I get the following error message:
Unable to mount the volume…
Details
$Logfile indicates unclean shutdown (0,0) Failed to mount ‘/dev/hdc1’; Operation not supported. Mount is denied because NTFS is marked to be in use. Choose one action: Choice 1: If you have Windows… (not an option, no more Windows) 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/hdc1 /media/devicename -o force Or add the option to the relevant row in the /etc/fstab file: /dev/hdc1 /media/devicename ntfs – 3g defaults.force 0 0
When typing the command in the terminal window, I get the response ‘Only root can do this’.
I have not attempted to edit the etc/fstab. I assume I should just add a line after the other devices listed in the file?
As root appears to be inaccessible, and sudo is not allowing me in, any suggestions will be highly appreciated. I need that drive intact if at all possible!
edit – thought I had something to add but I was mistaken…
