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[ubuntu] Error Mounting Exit Code 1 NTFS-3G-Mount Drive Busy

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http://ubuntuforums.org – I am trying to help out a friend with an odd issue. He has two external hard drives he was using as storage on a I-Mac. He had several terabytes of information on each drive, then one day the drives didn't show up on his mac. I believe he may have switched the drives from one mac to another which may have caused an issue. So I took the drives to my house to try and access them to back up the data onto a new external hard drive. I wanted to harness the power of Linux to get the data back. I burned a copy of Knoppix 7.0.5 to a cd and tried to see the drives. I only had one of them plugged in (Hardware)

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