Can't Mount Volume: Mount a misbehaving NTFS drive in Ubuntu

So I was attempting to move files from one old USB backup drive to another. When I tried to plug in the main drive with the files to be moved to my Ubuntu PC it would not show up. Usually the peripheral volumes just appear on the desktop and I have to double-double-click them to mount and access them. But this time for whatever reason, it was nowhere to be found. Either it was some issue with having multiple USB drives plugged in or Windows apparently goofed up the drive on the other PC. Regardless, it can be fixed if the drive is being recognized only just not mounted properly.

First off, you have to check and see if Ubuntu can see the drive

-go to System > Administration > Disk Utility

If you can find the drive that's being difficult listed on the left select it. Now in the disk console,

-select Check File System 

It will more than likely tell you the file system is bad.

You can now try to mount it by


-select Mount Volume

This will throw an error.

Now check the partitioned device's absolute path (e.g. dev/sd##) listed as "Device:".
Remember this because you will need it later. For example, mine was /dev/sdd1.


Now open the terminal and enter this:

sudo mkdir /media/&&&&&

(replacing &&&&& with a name of relevance e.g. "500GB" or "1TB" )

Now enter this command:

sudo mount -t ntfs /dev/sd## /media/&&&&&

That should do it and an icon named &&&&& should appear on your desktop.

Now get back to waiting on that &#!$ drive to transfer.