sata drive will not mount

[Ed Fletcher]

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daphatbell at gmail.com wrote:
>>From the following info, for all intent and purposes, my 200gb sata drive should be
> able to be mounted, correct? I have two 80gb drives as well and I have no problem
> mounting them. Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> 
> SCSI device sda: 390721968 512-byte hdwr sectors (200050 MB)
> SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
> SCSI device sda: 390721968 512-byte hdwr sectors (200050 MB)
> SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
> Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
> 
> 
> Disk /dev/sda: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24321 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> 
>   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sda1   *           1        2697    21663621    7  HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/sda2            2698       24321   173694780    f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
> /dev/sda5            2698        7876    41600286    7  HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/sda6            7877       12976    40965718+   7  HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/sda7           12977       18649    45568341    7  HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/sda8           18650       24321    45560308+   7  HPFS/NTFS
> 

I think that I've seen you ask this question before but I take it
that you received no answers?  I'm not sure if I can help, but I'll
see what I can come up with.

I notice that all the partitions on sda are NTFS, a filesystem which
is not well supported under linux.  A quick search of Synaptic shows
a couple of packages which may help you.  One is 'libnfts5' and the
other is 'ntfsprogs'.  These may do the job, however you should know
that writing to an NTFS filesystem is not completely supported yet.
  So I would install those two packages and try mounting the least
important partition on sda.  If you can mount it, then try reading
from it.  That may be all you can get.  If you need to have write
access to these partitions, I would recommend that you change them
over to FAT32 or something similar.

If this doesn't help, then give us the error message that you get
when trying to mount a partition on sda.

HTH,
Ed
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Ed Fletcher
ed at fletcher.ca

When one door of happiness closes, another opens;
but often we look so long at the closed door that
we do not see the one which has opened for us.
- - Helen Keller
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