You're right. Mepis (and probably a lot of other distros) allow you one-click access to Windows partitions.

Ubuntu doesn't, which is lame.

In the meantime, this should help you out:
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/mountwindows

It seems that I did not write carefully. I am a Live CD user who meet such problems, so using these commands would do right?

I'm not sure if this is what your after, but i install Ubuntu the other day and couldn't see my windoze partitions either. I did a google and found a solution on Ubuntu forums. I followed the ntfs-3g tutorial and i now have access to those partitions.

Hope that helps

I have tried all the suggestions even reinstallation and partitioning. Ubuntu does not let you access the windows disk.
I am not sure if it ever did as I have not tried earlier versions.

Guess your right I have just gone back to Mandriva with there latest 2007.1 free Beijing RC3 586 which works fine and solves the problem.

However, I found the Mandriva X86_64 version would load the ikon but there appears to be a bug when you click on the desktop ikon it say something like FSdevice ... error. Hope they fix this for the x86_64 release.

Have you looked in /media for that partition? Visibility of partitions is a configuration parameter. But regardless of what those parameters are set to the partition should be available through /media.

You're right. Mepis (and probably a lot of other distros) allow you one-click access to Windows partitions.

Ubuntu doesn't, which is lame.

In the meantime, this should help you out:
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/mountwindows[/QUOTE]