hard drives/windows partitions not recognized

[tkteo]

I am typing this message while booted into Kubuntu, so I know my Linux root and home partition on my first hard drive is recognized. I have two HDs, both Maxtor Diamondmax Plus 9 ATA 100.

But the windows partitions on both my first (Windows XP Pro NTFS installation for dual boot) and second (NTFS partition just to store documents, multimedia, etc files) hard drives do not appear on the desktop, nor do I see them in Konquerer. I have accessed the Kontrol Panel and checked all the boxes to show all device icons, so I doubt it's that problem. I have also created a subdirectory /mnt/winxp.

Typing and running "sudo fdisk -l" gives me:

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Disk /dev/hda: 100.2 GB, 100256292864 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 12188 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 7313 58741641 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2 7314 12013 37752750 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 12014 12188 1405687+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Disk /dev/hdb: 81.9 GB, 81964302336 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9964 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 1 6225 50002281 7 HPFS/NTFS
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while the contents of /etc/fstab is:

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# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
#<file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>

/dev/hda2 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/hda3 none swap sw 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0

/dev/hda1 /mnt/winxp ntfs ro,auto,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0
/dev/hdb1 /mnt/winxp ntfs ro,auto,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0

/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 vfat rw,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0
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I would appreciate all help rendered. This problem did not occur when I was still using Kubuntu 5.04. In fact when I was running 5.04 on dualboot I followed instructions on the Ubuntu forums and edited /etc/fstab and created /mnt/winxp , and it worked, so I really do not understand why my windows partititions are not recognized after upgrade to 5.10.

Thanks for reading and helping in advance.

[Moonglum]

Hello. It sounds like you did the steps correctly:
1. Edit /etc/fstab
2. Do the command mkdir /mnt/windowsxp
3. Reboot
I am not sure why it is not working for you. Perhaps it is because in your fstab you have:
/dev/hda1 /mnt/winxp ntfs ro,auto,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0
/dev/hdb1 /mnt/winxp ntfs ro,auto,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0
Maybe change these lines to:
/dev/hda1 /mnt/winxpa ntfs ro,auto,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0
/dev/hdb1 /mnt/winxpb ntfs ro,auto,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0
Then of course do the mkdir command (or whatever kubuntu uses). I hope it helps.

John

[aysiu]

It does seem a little odd that you have two separate NTFS partitions mounted to the same mount point. They should be mounted to different folders.

As for the /etc/fstab line, I'd use something similar to what's described here (http://www.ubuntuguide.org/#automountntfs)