• Texus
  • #! CrunchBanger
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  • Registered: 2009-09-08
  • Posts: 120

Topic: "Authentication is required" problem with dual boot

After a fresh-install of #! 20101205, I couldn't access my XP partition any longer (/dev/sda1, 16GB). When I opened nautilus and clicked on the XP partition in the side-pane, I would get a pop-up saying "Cannot mount 16GB file system. Authentication is required".

http://i.imgur.com/3FWPD.png

After numerous head-banging with fstab, mount, etc., the solution turned out to be installing disk-manager. I ran disk-manager as root, checked "enable write support" in "NTFS policy", and configured the XP partition under "status". Voila! Works like a charm.

Posting this because I have seen variations of the same question in many forums, but no definitive solution.