How can I browse my windows partition from Ubuntu 10.04?

Question

I can boot into my Windows XP or Ubuntu 10.04 with no problem. When I was on 9.10, I can usually browse to my windows partitions with the File Browser. Now that I have upgraded to 10.04, I can't see my windows partitions anymore through File Browser. Any ideas how to fix this?

Answer 1

You can simply add the line into the 'fstab'.
Open it with: sudo gedit /etc/fstab
Start a new line with the following content:
/dev/sdaX /mnt/WIN ntfs-3g 0 0

First one is the partition. Look it up which one you need with sudo cfdisk or sudo fdisk -l.
Then use that in the first part (like /dev/sda1, /dev/sdb3, etc).

Second part is the mount point. You can mount it in your home, in /mnt, /media, etc. I usually just create a new folder like /mnt/WIN (sudo mkdir /mnt/WIN), and use that. However you can use the /home/user/ntfs for example. Whatever you want.

Finally save the file (fstab) and do a sudo mount /mnt/WIN (where /mnt/WIN is the mount point you used).