Can't mount NTFS hard drive under 5.0.1

[Harry Kuhman]

answer #7 points to some issue with the subject line. If that's the case,

You are correct to an extent; the subject seemed apparent by the main thread topic. That's why I even tried to point you to the rescue faq, which I didn't know at the time that you had read, as otherwise a subject line like yours would cause me to not give an answer even if I knew it. But you seem to be posting your problem in a thread somewhat far away from where the people who might help you are likely to find it, being that this is a forum for those who think a hard disk install of Knoppix is a sane idea. I wasn't going to split it out and move it, however, with that subject line. If you search around in the forums you'll find other recent threads where the topic of trying to mount partitions that don't show up on the desktop or refuse to mount are covered in better detail.

[Jacky]

ZenMaster,

Try searching or asking at the forum on this site: http://www.linux-ntfs.org/. These are the people who are actually developing the Linux ntfs drivers and they seem a friendly lot and I have been quite impressed with the progress they have made with ntfs in just a few years. I think I have seen something like MFT problems on the posts there. Seems to me like you have a corrupt MFT (master file table). On some sites, the suggested solution is to boot with a Windows Recovery CD and do a chkdsk, but better check with the experts at linux-ntfs to be sure.

Regards.

[ZenMaster]

Thanks for your reply, Jackey -- I will definitely check that site out. I suspect that my drive is hosed since I did try the Recovery Console and chkdsk earlier and it told me that the drive had one or more unrepairable problems, or something like that. Nonetheless, I'll keep fishing around for something that might allow me to retrieve those files. Thanks again.

[Jacky]

If all else fails and you just want to recover files, you can also try testdisk and photorec (both are on Knoppix). photorec in particular is good for recovering files. It ignores the underlying file system and scans disks for byte patterns which match the signature of common file formats. So it might still work even if the filesystem is damaged and the disk cannot be mounted.

Photorec is good for media files like digital images (what it was originally designed to rescue) but now can recover many different types of files. Try a google for photorec to look at the main home site. It might be useful to you. Unfortunately, the documentation and manual is quite brief.

[tracer]

i had similar problems with permissions after doing a debian type install to hard drive. with live cd everything works fine, but after installing to hard drive i have problems running programs like kwrite and konqueror from root terminal and also i cannot mount hdb1 anymore, which is my ntfs partition. if i mount as root from terminal then its fine but this is no good for my xbox accessing over network.

after installing sux i can now run konqueror and kwrite from terminal (so i have root privelages). in konqueror i browsed to /dev directory and right clicked on hdb, set permissions for "others" to -can read and write- and did the same for hdb1. now when i click on desktop icon it mounts straight away.

i can appreciate that this may the wrong method , but it works so may put someone else onto the right track.