How to mount an NTFS drive on Ubuntu

Normally, Ubuntu will mount your NTFS drive automatically. If it doesn't, it means the logfile for the drive is unclean (which means the drive was not unmounted correctly, i.e. not shut down correctly.) To mount it, there are a few steps you must take.

Step 1 Make sure the drive is connected to the computer correctly. Also make sure ntfs-3g is installed through synaptic package manager.

Step 2 To clean the log file, type the following in a terminal:

sudo ntfsfix /dev/[DEVICENAME]
Where [DEVICENAME] is the name of the drive (i.e. sda1)

Step 3 When this finishes, type the following into the terminal:

sudo mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/[DEVICENAME] [LOCATIONOFMOUNT] -o force
Where [DEVICENAME] is the name of the drive (i.e. sda1) and [LOCATIONOFMOUNT] is an empty folder to mount the drive to.