error accessing NTFS partition

[Wade Smart]

03282008 1015 GMT-6

A friend of mine has a issue with access a ntfs partition.
It was originally a duel boot machine with three partitions.
1 was ntfs for windows
1 was ntfs data for windows
1 was for ubuntu.

He deleted the windows partition but still have many GB of data in the ntfs 
partition.

This is the fstab output:
fstab output

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# -- This file has been automaticly generated by ntfs-config --
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>

proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# Entry for /dev/hda1 :
UUID=163cc188-1844-4b1c-9df1-0fc25fea05b0 / ext3
defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# Entry for /dev/hda5 :
UUID=f8db8b78-efae-448c-bf3e-3bda5b157c88 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec 0 0
/dev/hdd /media/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto,exec 0 0


He followed several posts on the ubuntu forums for ntsf-3g and ntfsfix command. 
Neither worked - or worked for long.

He had access to the ntfs partition but when he tried to create a new folder he 
received the error "Unsupported Operation".  Apparently at some point he got it 
working again but now is getting the same error and this new one - "Not enough 
space to extend mft data" though he does still have 45gb of drive space left on 
that partition.

He is using Gutsy.

He also said that he has a external drive that is usb and it is also ntfs and 
that he can access it.

Wade