> As long as you're only reading from the NTFS partition, I don't see how
> you can harm anything by editing the disklabel.  
> 
> Hope that at least answers your conceptual questions.  ;-)
> 
> --jkl
> 

thanks for your response, that did help a lot.

After doing some more reading and testing I think I have
figured it out. I have successfully mounted my ntdfs
drive once again, not sure what happened the last time
I tried it.!