How to mount windows ntfs drive on Linux

Make a dir say /root/Desktop/mnt
1) mount /dev/hda(x) /root/Desktop/mnt
2) mount -t vfat /dev/hda(x) /root/Desktop/mnt
3) mount -t ntfs /dev/hda(x) /root/Desktop/mnt

use fdisk -l to know hda(x) / sda(x) for windows

[install fuse ntfs-3g to mount ntfs partition ]
Install fuse and ntfs-3g on your linux machine
Download their TAR
Untar, cd dir. configure, make, make install.................
then use

mount.ntfs-3g /dev/hda(x) /root/Desktop/mnt
or mount -ntfs /dev/hda(x) /root/Desktop/mnt


To un mount
umount /root/Desktop/mnt