mounting drives

I finally got Ubuntu Linux running last night, but it requires that I mount all of my sd and hd devices (excluding hda and hdb, which are my dvdrws)

Whenever I try this, though, it keeps spitting out an error that the filesystem is wrong.. I've tried vfat and ntfs but I still lose.

Any suggestions?

(and no, i'm not going to type rm -rf / into the terminal, thanks)

you probably need ntfs-3g drivers, I had the same problem.

Unmount

Install the drivers:
$ sudo aptitude install ntfs-3g

Open fstab:
$ sudo gedit /etc/fstab

Add this:
/dev/sda1 /media/windows ntfs-3g silent,umask=0,locale=en_EN.utf8 0 0
(sda1/sda2/sda3 hda1 etc)

Now get into the /media dir:
cd /media
And make the dir:
$ sudo mkdir windows

And finally:
$ sudo mount windows