Debian Hardrive mounting problems

Hi all

I am haveing a Very diffiecult time mounting an NTFS drive in Debian. I have Tried This:


fdisk -l

cd /mnt

mkdir windows

mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/windows -t ntfs -r

But all that did was make the Drive disappear from the OS, so that i have to restart...Any ideas on how i can fix this?

 

EDIT= Also if it helps i get when trying to acess the drive Invalid mount option when attempting to mount the volume '500GB'. 500gb being the name of the Drive

Srry for the Double post it wouldn't let me Edit my Last post

 

First make sure you have the NTFS-3g package installed

with the windows drive UNMOUNTED open the fstab file using your text editor:
if its gnome desktop use gedit...

FIRST make a backup of your fstab sudo cp /ect/fstab /etc/fstab_bak

sudo gedit /etc/fstab

add this line to the bottom

/dev/sda1 /mnt/windows ntfs-3g defaults 0 0

save, exit and reboot.