Published by Arif Isnaeni on 20 Nov 2009

Solving “Could not mount” NTFS Partition from Ubuntu

I usuallly use my laptop without its battery, only use the adaptor, I want to prolong my battery life time, but when I on training (on the class), so many mistakes happened. I could not make sure that the cable connector (adaptor) is connected properly, so many times my computer (windows XP, NTFS partition) was not shut down properly, finally I am on a trouble. Windows startup (booting ) with a blue screen,  I got a love mesage from my beloved computer (….hu… hu….   :-( ….), with a message:

A problem has detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer …

then I tried to restart so many times in “normal”, “last best configuration”, “safe mode”, “safe mode on command prompt”, but I got nothing. my first concern is back up all files on my windows XP partition (NTFS). as usual I use my linux ubuntu as a way to access my windows partition. but when I use  “ntfs-3g” and “ntfs-config”and “partition editor (gparted)” or “terminal”.. . to mount my NTFS partition, I got a remarks:

Could not mount /dev/sda1 on /media/SQ003654

$LogFile indicates unclean shutdown (0, 1)

Failed to mount ‘/dev/sda1′: Operation not supported

Mount is denied because NTFS is marked to be in use. Choose one action:

Choice 1: If you have Windows then disconnect the external devices by

clicking on the ‘Safely Remove Hardware’ icon in the Windows

taskbar then shutdown Windows cleanly.

Choice 2: If you don’t have Windows then you can use the ‘force’ option for

your own responsibility. For example type on the command line:

mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /media/SQ003654 -o force

Or add the option to the relevant row in the /etc/fstab file:

/dev/sda1 /media/SQ003654 ntfs-3g force 0 0

Here is the picture:

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so what shoud I do??…….thanksfully I got the solution from this blog:

  1. Open Applications → Accessories → Terminal
  2. Type  sudo su
  3. make a new director at  /mnt with a command line mkdir /mnt/repair
  4. Force mount by using this command:
    mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /mnt/repair -o force

    renark:

    /dev/sda1 is my broken NTFS partition, see yours
  5. open your NTFS Partition from file browser, if you still had this problem follow next step.
  6. Umount command umount /mnt/repair
  7. try once more to open your NTFS partiton
  8. back up file on NTFS… good luck…

Published by Arif Isnaeni on 04 Sep 2009

Oxelon Media Converter

Free media file converter for Windows that supports many video/audio formats and codecs (direct stream copy is also supported). Clear and intuitive user interface. Context menu extension allows you to convert files right from Windows Explorer.

you can download here.

oxelonm_media_converte

Published by Arif Isnaeni on 27 Jul 2009

Canonical Plugins

Canonical Plugin will help you to prevent duplicate content on your blog (wordpress blog)

Adds rel=”canonical” links to the head of your site, which help to prevent duplicate content issues on your blog.

canonical_plugins

Published by Arif Isnaeni on 20 Jul 2009

Mobi Internet Conection

Mobi or  Mobile Broadband Internet, is a mobile internet service from  Mobile-8, with  EVDO Rev A (3.5G) Techonology.

There is something interesting about this product, it include  a modem, you can choose USB or PCMCIA with the exactly same price Rp. 499.000,-

This internet connection consist of 3 types of data transfer:

CDMA 1x : 153 kbps / 153 kbps
EVDO rev 0 : 2.4 Mbps / 153 kbps
EVDO rev A : 3.1 Mbps / 1.8 Mbps

When I try to use this connection from my house (Cirendeu - Ciputat),  I can get EVDO (really weak) and  CDMA 1x signal.

mobi_access_manager

the connection speed:

mobi_speed_test_dot_net

This connection speed because of the signal that I get is only CDMA 1x, or in another word I can not get EVDO connection speed.

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