[GRLUG] Mount a windoz XP drive

[Clay Ashby]

Have you tried using ntfs-3g? I believe it is installed by default in
Ubuntu.

On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Bob Kline <bob.kline at gmail.com> wrote:

> Scenario:  I have an IDE drive from
> a machine running windoz XP that I'd
> like to mount on Kubuntu.
>
> The drive might be bad, but assuming
> it's not, what would be an appropriate
> mount command?
>
> I've tried mount -t ntfs /dev/sdf  /X  and
> mount -t ntfs /dev/sdf /X -o ro - the latter
> because one source claim you can only
> read from a windoz XP drive.
>
> Neither works.  Messages include
> "doesn't seem to have a valid NTFS."
>
> Suggestions?
>
>   -- Bob
>
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