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    How to write to NTFS drives in Ubuntu

    Discussion in 'Linux Compatibility and Software' started by aerowinged, May 4, 2007.

  1. aerowinged

    aerowinged Notebook Consultant

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    Hey guys I cant write or copy files to either my external HDD which is formatted in NTFS or to my windows partition which is NTFS. It either says i am not able to do it or i dont have permission. I thought i only needed a program from Windows XP side to read/write to ubuntu partition? But do i need to use a program in Ubuntu too?

    I googled it and came up with the file ntfs-3g. It is in my synaptic package manager. is this what i need?

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    aerowinged, May 4, 2007
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    zephyrus54 Notebook Guru

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    zephyrus54, May 5, 2007
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    OK, great. That did the trick. 1 issue down, still a few more to go

    Thanks
     
    aerowinged, May 5, 2007
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