Linux Mint looking for the Windows Partition

One of the nice things I like about Linux Mint is the small things that it does to improve user experience. I was surprised that my windows partition was listed in the left pane along with other common file storage places.
However, after performing a number of Mint updates, the link to my Windows partition was gone. This bring me to suggest against installing level 3 Linux Mint updates unless sufficient reason is found to do so.
Anyway, given the flexibility of Linux, the solution is simple enough. A nice method of going about it was provided by  Naiki Muliaina on Thu Sep 18, 2008 6:15 pm,
 
Open terminal then list your disks/partitions. Your windows partition/drive will have ntfs next to it. Mines /dev/sda3, so ill use sda3 later on. Yours might be different. Now make a folder to mount the windows partition into. Then use nano to open fstab.
sudo fdisk -l sudo mkdir /mnt/windows sudo nano /etc/fstab
Add a new line to the fstab file and add the following, replacing sda3 with wherever your ntfs drive is located.
/dev/sda3      /mnt/windows      ntfs   umask=000,defaults   0 0
Save it and close it then go back to terminal and type:
mount -a
You should now be able to find your whole windows partition in the directory /mnt/windows.
 
There you have it. Easy as pie. :)