Mounting my ext3 partitions - failure

[exigentsky at comcast.net]

Hi,

I just tried the Kubuntu RC and I like it in general. However, I cannot mount my ext3 drives. In every other distribution I tried, like SUSE 10, Linspire and Xandros, all my drives, (Windows, ext3 etc.) were automatically mounted upon bootup. I love this. 

In Kubuntu, I don't know what to do. I can't access any of my data on these partitions. I've already reat through tutorials and used mount /dev/hda5 but I can't seem to get anything done.

Please help me.

Thanks in advance,
                           Alex