marking it invalid as I was able to do it with help from friends on IRC the command I should have used is sudo mount -t ntfs /dev/sdb1 /media/windows
that was all that was required. -- mounting ntfs partition system hangs :( https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/283350 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs