Comment 4 for bug 102097

I have an external HD 120GB, connected with usb to my laptop (sony vaio vgn-sz3xp). When I had Kubuntu 6.10 the drive was automounted correctly. Upgrading to 7.04 automount (for the HD) does not work correctly anymore. A usb toggle I have (2gb Transcend) automounts correctly.
Steps taken to correct the error
1. Formated the external HD!!
2. In windows run chkdsk /f /r (no errors found)

3. Started linux and connect the external HD, I get the message "open in new window" , "do nothing" etc.
4. i choose "open in new window" , but nothing happens!!!
5. Doing fdisk -l and my external HD is there but not mounted...
6. I create a mount point in /etc/fstab
7. I Do a sudo ntfsfix /dev/sdb1
I get:
Mounting volume... OK
Processing of $MFT and $MFTMirr completed successfully.
NTFS volume version is 3.1.
Setting required flags on partition... OK
Going to empty the journal ($LogFile)... OK
NTFS partition /dev/sdb1 was processed successfully.
8. I do a sudo mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /media/dat -o force
I get:
WARNING: Dirty volume mount was forced by the 'force' mount option.

A voila the HD is mounted.
Same problem was encountered in my PC with a friends external HD.

I also run Kubuntu 6.10 from live CD, and both my external HD and that of my friend was automount and their contents displayed correctly.
Please advice.