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deanpcmad

Dec 9 2007, 03:43 PM

Hey,

Is there a Linux distro that can read and write to NTFS?

Thanks
deanpcmad

groovicus

Dec 9 2007, 04:58 PM

Ubuntu comes with native support. Otherwise all distros (at least all distros I know of) can be made to do so using packages from http://www.ntfs-3g.org/ and following the installation instructions.

roon

Dec 10 2007, 04:40 AM

Ubuntu can do this without installing any additional software.

deanpcmad

Dec 10 2007, 05:15 AM

Hey again,

Will this work on a Ubuntu 7.10 Live CD as our PC has crashed and the drives are formatted NTFS and my External HDD is formatted as NTFS. I could reformat the External HDD as FAT32 as I have a Backup Partition that I am going to copy the files onto.

Thanks
deanpcmad

groovicus

Dec 10 2007, 07:37 AM

yes.

deanpcmad

Dec 10 2007, 10:59 AM

Thanks!

If this doesn't work then I will use a Windows Live CD that I have just made with BartPE.

Thanks
deanpcmad

Joedude

Dec 13 2007, 03:31 AM

I believe (not sure) Fedora has this built in now. However, many people are less than impressed with Fedora 8.

deanpcmad

Dec 13 2007, 10:33 AM

Thanks all for replying.

I have used Ubuntu 7.10 Live CD to copy the files from my Internal HDD to my External HDD although I had a problem with the External HDD not mounting so I had 2 format the partition to FAT32 and found out that the whole HDD formatted!! DAMN!

Thanks
deanpcmad

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