I can't remember what exactly is the error message that the live CD gave me, but I had a similar problem. I think the problem is that the drives are already mounted on the live CD, but since the umask is not set to 0222, only the root user can access the mount point. However, since you are not running as root on the live cd, there is no luck accessing the drive unless you google your problem, find the solution, open a terminal, know enough Unix commands to remount the partition with a -o umask=0222 oh and already know about the sudo which even some fairly experienced old-time Unix users (me when I installed Ubuntu) did not know about (as I had always been on "su" systems), which seems a bit ridiculous. I think there needs to be a way to mount your Windows partitions graphically from the live CD so that you can access them graphically from the live CD. Otherwise, I think we turn off a _lot_ of Windows users.
Anyhow, just my two cents. This is my big pet peeve with Ubuntu. I love everything else. -- In live mode, Nautilus cannot mount drives https://launchpad.net/bugs/48668 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
