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How to mount a NTFS drive in linux.

In this day and age everyone freaks out if something doesn't automatically happen and they need to know how to get the job done.  Mounting a hard drive is one of the most asked questions that I get especially with LiveCD.  To do this the first thing you need is a mount source info.  For most current PC's you will be looking for a sata drive and the older ones are ide.  So first lets see what linux found.

1. Open up a terminal
2. Type "dmesg | more"
3. You can hit the spacebar to scroll through it.
4. You will eventually see something that says HDA, or SDA. (sometimes the A might be a B or C but the first to letters HD an SD will be there.) 
5. Note the number after the HDA like HDA2
6. Then in a directory that you have permissions type "mkdir harddrive" 
7. harddrive will now be the mount destination
8. Lastly type "mount -t ntfs /dev/hda2 ./harddrive"
9. You can now see the files on that drive.