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I can access the main windows partition, but the second one, where all of the storage is, is not even able to be seen...

I have TRIED to use the NTFS configuration tool, and what worked for 10.04 has not worked for 10.10 or 11.04... I looked around at some of the problems that were close, but nothing has been working, IN FACT, the NTFS tool is not even starting! after it asks for the password, it just stops dead.

Anyway, quick background. this is a two hard drive laptop. there are two partitions on each drive (bios limited) one drive is windows 7, the other is Ubuntu 11.04 natty. I love using ubuntu, but I need to be able to go from one environment, seamlessly to the other in order to make it worth switching.

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What do the /etc/fstab lines look like for the NTFS partitions? – boehj May 15 '11 at 3:56
Neither NTFS partition shows up there, but I can access one of the partitions, just not the one I need. – cz85b May 15 '11 at 22:06
It's probably worth making a /etc/fstab entry for the NTFS partition you need. (E.g. /dev/sda2 /media/windows ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_US.utf8 0 0). For this to work you need to first do sudo mkdir /media/windows. Better than /dev/sda2 (which is what I'm guessing the partition number is) is to use the UUID. This can be found by doing sudo blkid. More info here. – boehj May 16 '11 at 1:20
I may have screwed up, but it came up with an error while mounting... – cz85b May 22 '11 at 22:58
here is the entry I added to the Fstab – cz85b May 22 '11 at 22:58
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