Can not mount NTFS partition/files(Newbie)

[Derek Broughton]

Ed Oneill wrote:

> Need Help !  I have a usb 500g seagate drive partitioned with g-parted
> into (3) partitions one partition is 3g, one fat 32 and one ntfs(formatted
> in windows) I am useing Ubuntu 8.10 and I followed directions to auto
> mount(with ntfs config tool) and manually mount wtih  the terminal all
> with the same results each time .3g partition and fat 32 show up on
> desktop but not the ntfs. Ntfs can not be mounted! all (3) partitions show
> up under places,computer I have tried for several hours over the past few
> days and did many searches but no results as of yet! Don't know what I am
> doing wrong!

Was the NTFS partition properly dismounted?  If it's marked dirty it needs
an fsck before you can mount it.
-- 
derek