Windows partition desktop icon disappearing

[John Levin]

On 9 Apr 2005, at 22:35, Vincent Trouilliez wrote:

>>>> In this thread on the forums someone suggested a solution:
>>>> http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=21508
>>>
>>> removing the leading '/' ? Strange, tried it anyway, doesn't work.
>>> Well nevermind...
>>>
>>> --
>>> Vince
>>>
>>>
>>
>> I have the exact same problem as Vincent. None of the solutions
>> described here or on the thread above have worked for me either.
>
> I finally got it working. You have to mount your partition under 
> /media,
> not under /mnt . Or maybe leave them under /mnt but create symlinks
> under /media. Looks like if you want any device/partition to appear in
> the "Computer" location or the desktop, you have to put in /media. /mnt
> won't work.
>

I have windows mounted under /media, and nautilus is mounting it fine, 
it's just that the icon on the desktop hasn't appeared for some time; 
whereas putting a cd in automatically puts an icon there.

John