Cannot mount drives and partitions--Solved

[Floydcat2]

@gold_finger:
Thanks for your offer to help. After following your instructions here is the result:

total 36
drwxr-xr-x 2 kathy kathy 4096 Apr 14 23:05 Desktop
drwxr-xr-x 2 kathy kathy 4096 Apr 14 22:26 Documents
drwxr-xr-x 2 kathy kathy 4096 Apr 14 22:26 Downloads
drwxr-xr-x 2 kathy kathy 4096 Apr 14 22:26 Music
drwxr-xr-x 2 root  root  4096 Apr 14 23:30 ntfsfiles
drwxr-xr-x 2 kathy kathy 4096 Apr 14 22:26 Pictures
drwxr-xr-x 2 kathy kathy 4096 Apr 14 22:26 Public
drwxr-xr-x 2 kathy kathy 4096 Apr 14 22:26 Templates
drwxr-xr-x 2 kathy kathy 4096 Apr 14 22:26 Videos
kathy@kathy-ThinkPad-R61:~$ lsblk
NAME  MAJ:MIN RM    SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda      8:0    0  465.8G  0 disk
├─sda1  8:1    0  463.8G  0 part /
├─sda2  8:2    0      1K  0 part
└─sda5  8:5    0      2G  0 part [SWAP]
sr0    11:0    1    4.3G  0 rom 
zram0  251:0    0 1003.6M  0 disk [SWAP]
kathy@kathy-ThinkPad-R61:~$ sudo blkid
[sudo] password for kathy:
/dev/zram0: UUID="e324cd90-dbe4-4989-97d0-8beb19ac9adc" TYPE="swap"
/dev/sda1: UUID="17a13c75-cd5c-4ca0-9e58-060dde4771b4" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sda5: UUID="e0184c41-8d40-4684-bf4d-fcb8c9489ee5" TYPE="swap"

I can't answer your question about the partition not showing up. As I stated earlier, I replaced Windows XP with Linux Lite, but I can't get my drives and partitions mounted. I can't explain the error message about the invalid NTFS, or why I have to boot in safe mode to get going.

Let me be clear that I am not trying to recreate anything that I had in XP. I have some simple documents that I have backed up on a flashdrive, so no worries there. I'm trying to start fresh with Linux Lite. So far it is doing everything that I want/need, except for this crazy situation.

What else can I do to help you so that you can help me?