I have come across a few problems with ubuntu of late.

think i'll document them here as well as what i did to fix them.

Last week, i bought an external hard drive in NTFS format.

Before i even got it home, ike a pillock i plugged it in at work, but didn't shut it down tidily.

when i got home, i was unable to mount the drive on my ubuntu machine owing to an internal log file error.
fortunately, some geek has created a programme to resolve the issue.


In order to clear the log in ubuntu and get the thing mounted, you need to open a terminal and enter.



sudo apt-get install ntfsprogs



- ok That will get the program ntfs fix that you need the next command will tell it to fix your drive, make sure your drive is plugged in at this point:


sudo ntfsfix /dev/sdb1


the sdb1 thingy is the device causing you problems.

.In order to find out what the device is designated as, plug in the device, wait for the error to pop up and then look at the error details. It should tell you /dev/sdb1 or /dev/sdb2 , mine turned out to
be sdc1.

change the number if necessary, press enter and presto, the bastard mounts.