I recently upgraded Ubuntu from Gusty to Hardy, it did not go very smoothly and I faced some issues and problems. NTFS mounting issue was the one I just realised.

If you missed my previous article about the list of problems I encountered post upgrade, please check Ubuntu Hardy Upgrade Problems.

During fixing of those problems, I don't know what I did wrong, but I couldn't login to Windows partition anymore. Acutally, Windows boots and at the point of login, all mouse and keyboard are not functioning ( there is no response ). That's all right, I don't use Windows much at work anyway, just a backup system to use when Ubuntu goes wrong.

When I boot back to Ubuntu Hardy, seems like Ubuntu refuses to mount the windows NTFS partition for some bizarre reason. After some googling, I found the reason and some solutions to it.

Solution 1

You can force mount the NTFS file system either from command line ( once off for current session )



Or update the fstab file for permanent effect, open file



You will see something like the following:



Add "force" to the options colomn:



Now after you restart your system, the NTFS will be forcely mounted automatically.

Solution 2

If you don't like to do it manually, you can certainly use a GUI application to do the job for you, install ntfs-config:



The "NTFS Configuration Tool" will be installed under System menu, launch it and you will see




Check the options you would like and click "OK"

All should work.

Hope those helps.