How do I mount my NTFS hard drive partition?

Question

My computer's internal hard drive has an intermediate partition called 'Storage' which can be accessed from either Windows or Ubuntu. It is an NTFS partition but when I try to mount it in Ubuntu as root using:

sudo /usr/bin/udisks --mount /dev/sda3

I get the following error message:

Mount failed: Error mounting: mount exited with exit code 1: helper failed with:
mount: unknown filesystem type 'ntfs-3g'

Please note that I only have a very basic understanding of Ubuntu so if anyone could give me step by step instructions to fix this it would be very much appreciated! Thanks.

Solution

sudo mount -t ntfs /dev/sdXn /path/to/dir

/dev/sdXn should be the partition, e.g. /dev/sda2 (you can find it in Disk Utility if you don't know it).

/path/to/dir can be any existing empty directory where you want to mount the partition. Typically e.g. /media/ntfs.

If that returns an error about lack of ntfs-3g, check that you have the package of that name installed.

Comments

[Janus Troelsen]

@Kyle: you can try viewing it from the root user. if that works, you can try mounting with a different umask to allow non-owners to access the directory too