Ubuntu and NTFS Drives

Have a NTFS drive that you want to write to?  Install ntfs configuration tools: ntfs-3g and ntfsconfig.
Linux mint comes with this pre-installed.
It some times happen that one use a ntfs drive on a windows machine and its not ejected properly.
When trying to mount it on ubuntu you get a error. To overcome this use:

$sudo mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /media/disk1 -o force

The latter is assuming that there is a folder called disk1 in /media. Also remember to do a chmod
777 on that folder if you are creating it.