Try this (as root, unless you've configured it the other way around):
Code:
mkdir -p /mnt/windows
mount -t ntfs -o users,umask=022 /dev/sda1 /mnt/windows
Here
/dev/sda1 is the device file if your SATA harddrive is a primary one (if it's secondary, try
sdb instead of
sda) and if the partition you want to access is not first, change
1 to the correct number.
/mnt/windows is the place where the drive is tried to get mounted, change that if you like. The
mkdir command is only needed if you do not have a mountpoint (a directory where it gets mounted) already created; after first time, that command isn't needed again.
- if that worked out, proceed with the instructions below
- if that didn't work out, post here the error messages/other information about what happened
Now if that did work, add an fstab entry (if you altered the above lines, change this fstab line accordingly):
as root, use a text editor of your choice to open
/etc/fstab and then add this entry:
Code:
/dev/sda1 /mnt/windows ntfs auto,users,umask=022 0 0
Then save and do
as root which should get it mounted. NOTE: the following options I used in fstab are:
- auto = automatically mount during boot process
- usres = let users handle (umount) the device too
- umask=022 = set umask to value 022, which means that from the default value 777 (for directories) is removed 022, 755 is left which means that owner (root I suppose, if you didn't do any odd tricks) gets full permissions to that mountpoint, group and other users only read-and-execute permissions.
