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How to automount NTFS partitions?

I'm a linux noob so you're going to have to talk noobish to me to understand...

I just installed the newest version of ubuntu on my computer and I am having some problems mounting my NTFS drive. On boot it asks me to skip the mounting process or do it manually. I'm not sure what to do. When I do try to mount, I get this error: Error mounting: mount exited with exit code 1: helper failed with: mount: only root can mount /dev/sda2 on /media/286452716452422C – I got the NTFS mounting tool and it doesn't seem to work right... Any ideas would be most helpful.

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You can try this:

Go to the dash and type "Terminal". Run it and type:

sudo apt-get install ntfs-config

This will prompt you to enter your administrator password. Enter it.

This will install a program, that as the name goes, configures you ntfs partitions in you drive.

In the following screenshot, configure your drive as I put it there

The program to configure the drive

Tick dev/sda2 and rename it to "/media/286452716452422C"

finally click auto configure.

Let me know if it works

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    I tried it and I got this. Error mounting: mount exited with exit code 1: helper failed with: mount: only root can mount /dev/sda2 on /media/286452716452422C – Cameron Aug 15 '12 at 04:26
  • How do I find the drive? I tried looking for it but I wasn't sure if it was right or not. When I tried mounting it I got the same error message. – Cameron Aug 15 '12 at 05:01
  • Two folders with a bunch of numbers and dell utility – Cameron Aug 15 '12 at 05:06
  • I did. I have the same problem... Not sure whats going on. You were right about the drive though. – Cameron Aug 15 '12 at 05:12
  • It did and I did everything you said but It didn't do anything. – Cameron Aug 15 '12 at 05:19
  • Didn't work either... No idea man. Maybe this computer just sucks. – Cameron Aug 15 '12 at 06:01
  • @Cameron - Have you tried sudo mount /dev/sda2 /mnt – atenz Aug 15 '12 at 06:07
  • When I typed that in terminal I got this message.Windows is hibernated, refused to mount. Failed to mount '/dev/sda2': Operation not permitted The NTFS partition is hibernated. Please resume and shutdown Windows properly, or mount the volume read-only with the 'ro' mount option, or mount the volume read-write with the 'remove_hiberfile' mount option. For example type on the command line – Cameron Aug 15 '12 at 12:07
  • I also did what cgubuntu said as well. Nothing... – Cameron Aug 15 '12 at 12:45
  • @Cameron I added a new solution – Max Tither Aug 15 '12 at 16:38