[SOLVED] Dual-booting xp and intrepid can't see win partition

Hi,

I'm dual-booting Windows XP and Ubuntu 8.10 on a Toshiba Laptop and I'm not able to access the windows partition on ubuntu. When I had installed ubuntu I was able to acess it but now I'm not... Why?

You can still boot on XP?

Yes.

Yes.

Sorry for the double posting.

One way to make it visible is to download ntfs-config from Synaptic. Run it and it will re-write your fstab file and make your win partition visible on your desktop.

I tried what you suggested but it didn't work, it gave an error message like the one before.

Here's the error message: [IMG]http://img230.imageshack.us/img230/631/screenshottm2.png[/IMG]

Go to command line and type:

sudo mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /media/drv0 -o force

If that doesn't work do this:

1) Go to command line and run blkid. 2) Copy the UUID for /dev/sda1. 3) Go to command line and run sudo gedit /etc/fstab. 4) If you see a /dev/sda1 line erase it and add the following:

# /dev/sda1
UUID=***********       /media/drv0       ntfs-3g         defaults      0   0

Just copy the UUID from earlier to *********** and save it there and restart.

It didn't work. It says "fuse:failed to acess mountpoint /media/drv0"

nfcampos said: It didn't work. It says "fuse:failed to acess mountpoint /media/drv0"

I just re-edited my post, try that.

Also your error stated that "$logfile indicated an unclean shutdown." Boot into Windows and just do a clean shutdown. I'm pretty sure if you update your fstab file and do a nice clean shutdown in Windows, it should work.

An unclean disk is usually caused by an improper shutdown of windows or a windows crash. (Gee that never happens) The best way to fix it is to boot up windows and shut it down using the start menu option.