Cannot Mount Volume Error

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Heya all using a old live cd from mint and getting that error when ever I try to mount one of my drives, I need to get some files from my main drive before I format, since windows keeps bsod on me because it can't find a nvidia bus extension driver.
Plus I am lil scared doing that forced way as said in the error.

Is there anyway I can get my drive to mount so I can just get those files I need from them?
 
mount it from the command line with the force flag or just try use -r flag for read only.

Sorry, don't have the command with me right now
 
Code: 
mount -t ntfs-g/def/sda1/media/disk -o force

I hope this is how you posted it, rather than how you actually typed it in the terminal. In case it is the latter, this is how it should look

Code: 
mount –t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /media/disk –o force

Before you did the above,
1. is ntfs-3g installed?
2. did you create the directory /media/disk?
 
milomak said:
Code: 
mount -t ntfs-g/def/sda1/media/disk -o force

I hope this is how you posted it, rather than how you actually typed it in the terminal. In case it is the latter, this is how it should look

Code: 
mount –t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /media/disk –o force

Before you did the above,
1. is ntfs-3g installed?
2. did you create the directory /media/disk?
Click to expand...

1. Where do I see this?
2. I got that from the error message I relieved.

Yeah I did type it in wrong. But now I tells me I need to be in root to do that command.

Well it might have worked since I can now get access to my drives after I restarted my machine. Tnx for the help. :)
 
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I would add the "ro" option to the command.
Code: 
mount –t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /media/disk –o force,ro

You will need to be "root" in order to do a mount. You could try to put "sudo" in front of the command. eg:
Code: 
sudo mount –t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /media/disk –o force,ro
 
I think from what I have read Mint is a debian derivative. So I will use what I know about debian but I am pretty sure it should work.

Open a console (don't type the # in each line. It shows that you should be at a command prompt):

Code: 
# sudo apt-get install ntfs-3g
# sudo mkdir /media/disk
# sudo mount –t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /media/disk –o force,ro

You should be able to open the file manager, navigate to /media/disk and copy the relevant files you want.

As it seems you are not too familiar with Linux, what happens when you try to boot in Safe Mode in Windows?
 
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