Mount (one partition) LDM on Arch

Hi everybody,
I'm having a hard time mounting a NTFS drive.
On Windows i did merge two partition to be one (spanning i think).
It is recognized as one partition though:
Disk /dev/sdb: 931.5 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x000acf3f
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 63 1953523119 976761528+ 42 SFS
With normal NTFS driver it mounts but is read-only, using NTFS-3G it gives this error (that's with Nemo file manager):
Error mounting /dev/sdb2 at /run/media/double/DATA: Command-line `mount -t "ntfs" -o "uhelper=udisks2,nodev,nosuid,uid=1000,gid=100,dmask=0077,fmask=0177" "/dev/sdb2" "/run/media/double/DATA"' exited with non-zero exit status 12: Failed to read last sector (1953517567): Invalid argument
HINTS: Either the volume is a RAID/LDM but it wasn't setup yet,
or it was not setup correctly (e.g. by not using mdadm --build ...),
or a wrong device is tried to be mounted,
or the partition table is corrupt (partition is smaller than NTFS),
or the NTFS boot sector is corrupt (NTFS size is not valid).
Failed to mount '/dev/sdb2': Invalid argument
The device '/dev/sdb2' doesn't seem to have a valid NTFS.
Maybe the wrong device is used? Or the whole disk instead of a
partition (e.g. /dev/sda, not /dev/sda1)? Or the other way around?
I did run chkdsk on Windows, that's not the problem.
I tried this without success:
mdadm --build --verbose /dev/md0 --chunk=64 --level=linear
mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/md0 /media/data
How can i mount it?
Thanks in advance.

AD28 wrote:
For seamless integration similar to Ubuntu:
Follow this wiki for ntfs-3g installation and fstab configuration.
For basic on-demand support:
# pacman -Sy ntfs-3g
and mount with:
# mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdbX /mnt
Now that did the trick!!!!!
A happy Arch Linux user here!!!!hehee
Any idea how to automate this? I want it to be automatically mounted so that it would be easy to transfer files...Pleasssseeeeee.....Thanks

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