Re: [Hampshire] Help needed

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Author: Hugo Mills
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On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 02:54:21PM -0000, Robert Jelf wrote:
> I have a new computer with an Asus A8N32-SLI DeLuxe motherboard, with an AMD
> Athlon 64 Processor 3500+, ATI Radion X1800 series graphics card, TV card,
> Creative X-Fi Fatality sound card, 200GB and 250GB SATA hard drives, DVD
> writer and DVDrom for various reasons the 250GB drive has 2 NTFS volumes on
> it. The 200GB drive is in a swappable caddie.
>
> I have tried various distro's but none cane read and write to the NTFS
> drives. The distro'e that I have tried are Open SUSE 10.1, Mandriva 10.1,
> Slackware 11.0, Desktop BSD 1 AMD64, Fedora Core 6 - 64, SimplyMepis 6.0 and
> Knoppix 5.1.1.


In brief, the Linux NTFS driver doesn't do writes. It is a
read-only driver. You _may_ be able to use Captive[1] to do it, and
I've just discovered NTFS-3G[2], but I've never used either before
myself.

Hugo.

[1] http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/
[2] http://www.ntfs-3g.org/

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