Re: USB HDD Write Permissions - Slack and Archie

pbl wrote:
Yes, NTFS 320 GB.

I have since tried booting with PCLinuxOS. Everything appears to work fine except I cannot write files to either my internal drive or the USB drive. When I try I get the permissions error again. When I try to change the permissions for the drive I get a cannot change permissions error. This is the same for 3 bootable versions of Linux I have used. I know both of my drives are working fin but I'm beginning to think they may be somehow locked by Windows XP.

This is very frrustrating. Any other ideas?

Please do not top post.

Normally Linux cannot write to NTFS. There is a new Linux driver for NTFS supporting writing, but since I dont use NTFS myself I dont know which distros include it.

You may create a FAT32 partition on your drive and use that for your backup.

"Trygve Selmer" <trselmer@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:46A46F04.6010009@xxxxxxxxxxx

pbl wrote:

It is not FAT. Any other clues?

What is it? NTFS?


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