Unable to mount windows drive on portable Ubuntu?

Dr Nick · 01-31-2009, 01:41 AM

OK, I run Ubuntu persistently off my flash drive.

I had it going fine yesterday, but today when i booted it up, I couldnt mount my Vista drive.

Quote:

Cannot mount volume.
Unable to mount the volume 'Vista'.

Details:
mount: according to mtab, /dev/sda2 is
already mounted on /media/Vista

Quote:

Unable to mount Vista

DBus error org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.

They are the two error messages I get when I try to mount it.

I think maybe since I didnt unmount it when i shut it down yesterday it still thinks its mounted - but it isnt.

I cant access my windows drive, and I need to

Thanks for any help/ workarounds!
Nick

jdkaye · 01-31-2009, 02:21 AM

Hi Nick,
What happens if you run

Code:

sudo umount /media/Vista

from a terminal?
cheers,
jdk

Dr Nick · 01-31-2009, 02:31 AM

Quote:

nick@ubuntu:~$ sudo umount /media/Vista
umount: /dev/sda2: not mounted
umount: /media/Vista: not found
umount: /dev/sda2: not mounted
umount: /media/Vista: not found

Apparently... That

IDK, but that doesnt look all that good to me... It seems that its not there, and not mounted... And i still cant access that drive.

Thanks for your help, do you have any other suggestions?

Nick

Dr Nick · 01-31-2009, 02:43 AM

As strange as this may sound, i just tried mounting my other HDD's and they worked, so I tried the Vista one again and it mounted!

Everything is working fine now.
Thanks
Nick

vibinlakshman · 01-31-2009, 06:00 AM

If u want to see the same error , just perform improper windows shutdown
So better do proper shutdown else u will again get panic
Have a nice day.

naisanza · 05-03-2009, 10:55 PM

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jdkaye · 05-03-2009, 11:24 PM

Hi Naisanza,
You have placed your query in an already existing thread "Unable to mount windows drive on portable Ubuntu?". This is called "hijacking a thread" and it's not a very nice thing to do. Please start your own thread if you have a question to ask and don't hijack other people's threads. It makes answering questions confusing and annoying.

Thanks for your cooperation.
jdk