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partitions disapear after convert

Asked by Osher

I have both linux and windows on my computer, after converting two of my partitions from FAT32 to NTFS (through windows) they both disapear on ubuntu.. how can I bring them back?

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Steve Flynn (anothermindbomb) said : 		#1

They are most likely defined in you /etc/fstab as being FAT32 - edit the file and define those partitions as NTFS and they should be mounted ok again.

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Osher (oshernet) said : 		#2

10q Steve Flynn it worked. to bad ubuntu cant "cut" things etc. with NTFS partitions :\

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Ralf Nieuwenhuijsen (ralf-nieuwenhuijsen) said : 		#3

With edgy you can install ntfs-3g, but you'll have to google around how to enable it in /etc/fstab. I haven't tried it personally. They claim it is stable enough to allow it to write to ntfs partitions, but it's not officially backed by Ubuntu it seems though.