Mounting a windows partition

This is a quite "how-to" on mounting a partition in GNU/Linux. First we need to identify which partition we want to mount. To do this we'll issue the fdisk command;

~ # fdisk -l

This lists the partitions, we're looking for a partition that has NTFS under the system column.

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1         192     1536000   27  Unknown
/dev/sda2             192        7734    60579043+   7  HPFS/NTFS                  <----
/dev/sda3           29333       30402     8586240   17  Hidden HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda4            7734       29333   173495297    5  Extended
/dev/sda5           28962       29333     2976768   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6           28591       28962     2972672   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda7           18273       18496     1798144   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda8            7734       18273    84653056   83  Linux

Now we want to create a directory in our /media/ directory which is where we'll mount the windows partition.

mkdir -p /media/Winblows

Now we're reading to mount it in the directory we just created.

mount -t ntfs -o nls=utf8,umask=0222 /dev/sda2 /media/Winblows

That should successfully mount your windows ntfs partition in the directory we created, hope this helps!