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Unable to write to Win Xp (NTFS) partition.

Asked by tahaselim

I thought Summary part would include all. Anyway,

I had a pc with 2 hdd partitions(C and E drives) running on XP. I decided to make my pc dual boot, so I partitioned 10 GB of E. Then I installed UBUNTU to this 10 GB ext3 formatted part.

Everything is ok, I can even read my files in C and E. (well in ubuntu they are hda1 and hda5 respectively) But these drives are shown as READ-ONLY so are the files inside.

I would like to change permissions of these drives and make them writable. I made:

chmod u+x hda1 in media directory

but Permission denied, changing permissions of a Read only file error is given.

I performed the same thing with sudo command, yet it did not work.

How can I change their permissions?

thanks

Taha Selim

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Best Caspar Clemens Mierau (leitmedium) said : 		#1

Hi,

first as a disclaimer:

As Microsoft never published a whitepaper on how ntfs works all attempts to writer drivers for other operating systems are the result of try and error. Therefore normally you are only allowed to read you ntfs data as no one wants to take responsibility of a data loss. So everybody will tell you you do that on your own risk.

But: Actually I have never heard of somebody losing data by writing data to ntfs, and I by mysel make this every day.

So:

1. install nfts-3g driver:
sudo apt-get install ntfs-3g ntfs-config

2. Launc ntfs-config via the menu (in system tools) or via the terminal :
gksu ntfs-config

If your NTFS partitions are not yet configure, it will ask you to choose a name that will be use as mount point. Just put the name you want. Then just enable write support for internal and/or external device, and that's all.

You now probably have to remount or restart. Good luck!

More information can be found on:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=217009

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Qiming Liu (qooroo) said : 		#2

if you've recently switched from windows then i recommend getting automatix - it sorts out many problems, including (i think) ntfs write.

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tahaselim (e139042) said : 		#3

Thanks this solved the problem.

Taha Selim