thanks for this advice during stressful times. worked. :)
When you use mount you either have to tell it enough information to mount the device or it will look in /etc/fstab for clues. You will need to have ntfs support (read-only) either compiled into your kernel or the module loaded and then tell mount exactly what you want to do -You don't need the module _loaded_. mount will do that.mount -t ntfs /dev/hda2 /mntmkdir /mnt/win mount -t ntfs /dev/hda2 /mnt/win