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TheResistance

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Having Trouble Mounting Internal NTFS Hard Drive

Hello, I am a long term Windows user, and I have been researching about Linux for past 3 months. With all that knowledge, recently about 3 days ago i switched to Pop!_OS. It had some problems and overall it wasn't just what I wanted. Then I gave Arch Linux a shot, installed xfce and i3, and it met my expectations so far. But with a problem, I couldn't see my secondary ntfs hard disk in the file explorer. It is my backup / mass storage device. Searched for a solution, but came back empty handed. This forum is my last stop of hope until I switch to some other alternatives such as Manjaro, but I really don't want to unless I have no other choice.

What I want: Accessing the hard drive WITHOUT LOSING ANY DATA INSIDE.

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Note: I was able to access the same hard drive right after the installation, without any trouble.

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Zod

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Re: Having Trouble Mounting Internal NTFS Hard Drive

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NTFS

TheResistance

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Re: Having Trouble Mounting Internal NTFS Hard Drive

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NTFS

Thank you so much. Is there any way to change the mount directory after mounting to somewhere else? Also is any change made in the mount folder associated with the disk itself?

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RounakDutta

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Re: Having Trouble Mounting Internal NTFS Hard Drive

The link given by @Zod mounts your device temporarily which means to permanently mount that ntfs hard disk permanently you have to edit your /etc/fstab file -
Look at - https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/fstab
If u are still getting confused on how to mount your drives permanently. There is a good video on youtube which you can follow to mount any drives you want -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JS0Jd_DNXdg

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kokoko3k

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Re: Having Trouble Mounting Internal NTFS Hard Drive

Probably you're missing ntfs-3g which is the old driver.
That said,  i suggest you to follow what Zod linked to use the new ntfs3 driver and this: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NTFS-3G
for the old one.
Also, it is better to disable windows fast startup and not use windows ibernation.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NTFS-3 … d_to_mount

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TheResistance

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Re: Having Trouble Mounting Internal NTFS Hard Drive

The link given by @Zod mounts your device temporarily which means to permanently mount that ntfs hard disk permanently you have to edit your /etc/fstab file -
Look at - https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/fstab
If u are still getting confused on how to mount your drives permanently. There is a good video on youtube which you can follow to mount any drives you want -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JS0Jd_DNXdg

Thanks, I had no idea lsblk -f has existed. I actually don't know almost any terminal command for now lol. The video you sent solved the issue. I appreciate your help.

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RounakDutta

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Re: Having Trouble Mounting Internal NTFS Hard Drive

Thanks, I had no idea lsblk -f has existed. I actually don't know almost any terminal command for now lol. The video you sent solved the issue. I appreciate your help.

Afaik There are many ways to mount a drive as mentioned in archwiki -
1) /etc/fstab - the most simplistic way anyone can mount a drive in linux.
2) By creating udev rules like udisks to manually mount and using udiskie to automount on startup. (Most linux users don't use this method because this is a little bit complicated).

I am not sure but I think ntfs3G became old now because newer kernels now support ntfs3(kernels > 5.15) and for kernels < 5.15 read and write support is provided by ntfs3G which I think is not needed because NTFS3 support in new kernels are enabled by default as said in this arch wiki article - https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NTFS

Last edited by RounakDutta (2022-06-10 09:32:45)