how to mount a dirty windows hard drive

[Herman Christiani]

Many thanks, will try 14.04 first

On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 5:06 PM, Martinx - ジェームズ
<thiagocmartinsc at gmail.com>wrote:

>  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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