I am trying to mount an NTFS partition on my friend's broken laptop with the Ultimate Boot CD (http://ubcd.sourceforge.net/) using Insert and Captive NTFS. It either just hangs when trying to mount or I get the error "cannot stat mountpoint", eg: # mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/win -t ntfs -o ro
Mounts the partition fine.
# umount /mnt/win
# mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/win -t captive-ntfs
This it where it either hangs (can be exited with Ctrl&C) or I get:
Captive NTFS v1.1.5. Check etc...
cannot stat /mnt/win
The funny thing is:
# stat /mnt/win
returns the correct output!I am using the ntoskrnl.exe and ntfs.sys files that are in the laptop's XP home installation (can't say whether it is service packed or not) and have copied them to /var/lib/captive/
The user and group captive have been successfully created.
Running StartCaptive from the insert menu brings up a box correctly listing hda1 as being NTFS and available for read-write mounting.
This is the first time I have had to use captive...has anyone got any ideas?
Just had a go with Knoppix 3.6 and received exactly the same error....what am I doing wrong?!?
OK I've fixed it. Even though the user and group called captive exist, the user is now a member of the group (user insert is but doesn't have the permission to mount a hard drive). Solution, simply add the user captive to the group captive.
