how to mount a dirty windows hard drive

[Martinx - ジェームズ]

Windows 8 uses NTFS ?
Try to install on your Ubuntu, the software called "gparted", it is the
best one to manage harddisks on Linux!

do:

"sudo apt-get install gparted"

"sudo gparted" on a Terminal, examine your disks

Then, you can mount it with (probably): "ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /mnt/windows",
where /dev/sdb1 is the disk/partition of your Windows that you'll need to
figure out using gparted (I tink that each step above can be read-only).

BTW, go for Ubuntu 14.04 already! It is by far much better than 13.10!   ;-)

Cheers!
Thiago

On 27 March 2014 19:07, Herman Christiani <herman.christiani at gmail.com>wrote:

> Thanks for replying, hdd is inside computer and connected.
> Do I have to remove it and reconnect?
> Or is there a command line to force the OS to mount this drive?
> Thanks, Herman
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 10:59 AM, Tom Rausner <tom at rausner.dk> wrote:
>
>> Connect the HDD to the computer using a hard disk docking station. Should
>> be accessable like any extern drive.
>> On Mar 27, 2014 10:53 PM, "Herman Christiani" <
>> herman.christiani at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi, gave up on windows 8.1 a few days ago and installed ubuntu 13.10 64
>>> bit.
>>> Very impressed and not willing to go back to windows.
>>> Problem: can't access a backup HDD disk, ubuntu refuses to mount because
>>> windows did not properly shut down, are there ways to force mount? if so
>>> how?
>>> Thanks in advance for any pointers, Herman
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