Error while accessing NTFS partitions

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Problem

NTFS partitions do not mount in normal user accounts when tried to access through My Computer, and an error pops up saying something like "mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock".

Solution

Simple

This should not generally happen. But if it does happen to you, try mounting the NTFS partitions by logging in as "root" instead. You usually mount a partition by double-clicking on it from My Computer > Storage Media.

The command-line way

(You need to log in as root to do this)

If the above method does not work, you'll have to mount the partition yourself, manually. Do to that:

  • Create a folder for the partition to be mounted in, say the /mnt directory. For example, the partition to be mounted is sda1, then create a folder called "sda1" in /mnt.
  • Open up Konsole (command-line) and issue the command "sudo mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1".
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