Access NTFS Partitions from Linux

Making the move from Windows to Linux can be a tough one, especially if you have a hard time moving your data. Here is a way to access your NTFS Windows partition from a standard distro of linux, such as ubuntu.

1. Open a terminal and su to root

sudo su
2. Find the NTFS Partition

fdisk -l
3. Create a place to mount your NTFS Partition

mkdir /mnt/windows
4. Mount the NTFS Partition, in my example the NTFS partition is on /dev/hda1.

mount /dev/hda1 /media/windows/ -t ntfs -o nls=utf8,umask=0222
5. Test that you can read it