Nautilus cannot display what inside a mounted windows system partition

I've using ubuntu dual boot with windows for years, since jaunty jackalope i think. i usually make three partition; 1 ntfs for windows system (C:), 1 ntfs for data storage and ext3/4 for linux. at first i could mount and access my ntfs C: and data ntfs out the box. but since the nth upgrade of lucid or precise (i dont remember) until now, nautilus stop to display the contents of C: (windows 7 system partition), but the data partition works well as usual. it seems that the drive c: is mounted, and the properties display correct usage of the drive, but i still cant see the files inside the drive in the file manager. i've searched on the web but no result, most of the cases are windows partition cannot be mounted. I need to share my Download folder in windows with ubuntu while im working with ubuntu. Anyone can help?

1 Answer

Try mounting it through the terminal by creating a folder to mount to with

sudo mkdir /mnt/windows

finding the partition with

sudo fdisk-l

Then with the partition you want,

sudo mount -t ntfs (disk partition) /mnt/windows

Then in nautilus, go to /mnt/windows

If it still doesn't work, then try

sudo apt install --reinstall ntfs-3g