Plaese help! Cannot mount NTFS HDD [SOLVED]

[zacspeed]

Hi all, Noob question I have Mint 10 (64 bit) installed on one small drive and a 1Tb as a secondary (with all my piccies, music & stuff on). This drive was formatted NTFS & I can't get Mint to see it
I have tried using the NTFS config tool but it won't run (asks for my password then nothing).
If I run sudo fdisk -l in terminal it tells me the following:

Disk /dev/sda: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xf11d88a1

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 121601 976760001 7 HPFS/NTFS

Can anyone please advise me from here as all the instruction I can find seem a bit foreign to me & I DESPERATELY don't want to go back to M$
Thanks in advance

[altair4]

Please post the output of the following command:

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sudo blkid -c /dev/null

[zacspeed]

/dev/sdb1: UUID="97e37c22-873b-45e7-a700-8d8b7ec14668" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sdb5: UUID="0877d8db-b3ee-464e-9036-ce9e7a20775e" TYPE="swap"
/dev/sda1: UUID="46C80E14C80E0343" TYPE="ntfs"

[altair4]

[1] Make a permanent home for the partition to live in:

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sudo mkdir /media/Data

[2] Edit fstab as root:

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gksu gedit /etc/fstab

[3] Add the following line to the end of fstab:

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UUID=46C80E14C80E0343 /media/Data ntfs defaults,nls=utf8,uid=1000,umask=000 0 0

[4] Save fstab and in a terminal run the following command to test for errors and mount the new partition:

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sudo mount -a

If you get any errors post them back here. If not then see if you can access the partition at /media/Data

[zacspeed]

OK, done all of the above & still nothing

When I type sudo mount -a into the terminal nothing happens?? When I attempt to close the terminal it warns me a process is still running.

[altair4]

Go back into fstab and place a # in front of the line you just added so that it looks like this:

#UUID=46C80E14C80E0343 /media/Data ntfs defaults,nls=utf8,uid=1000,umask=000 0 0

Save it and post the output of the following command:

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cat /etc/fstab

[zacspeed]

Just rebooted & now it's showing up!
Thanks ever so much Altair4 you are a life saver!!

[altair4]

That's good because I couldn't quite figure out what could cause mount -a to stall like that.