On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 8:14 AM, Steven Morrey <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have a laptop running windows 7 and i decided to give natty narwhal a try.  
> I installed it using wubi which i found on the iso i downloaded.
> Everything looks great but i would like to access my main windows 7 
> partition.  Oddly my recovery parition mounts automatically at boot, but i 
> cant seem to get at the main.
>
> I dont see an entry for it in fstab and when i do a simple mount /dev/sda1 
> /media/windows
> It complains that its already mounted at /root not a typo.
> Figuring that seemed a bit strange i cd'd to the directory and there is 
> nothing to indicate the volume is there.  So i go back to / and try to umount 
> it but it says the volume is in use.  lsof says its in use by root.
> Any ideas on what to try from here?

Sounds a lot like your linux install may have clobbered your windows
partition, or at the very least, your windows partition is not the
first partition.
What does fstab -l /dev/sda show?

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