 Linux Distro To Read And Write To Ntfs |
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 Dec 9 2007, 03:43 PM
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Is there a Linux distro that can read and write to NTFS? Thanks deanpcmad -------------------- deanpcmad |
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Dec 9 2007, 04:58 PM
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 Hail Groovicus! Group: Site Admin Posts: 6,454 Joined: 5-June 04 From: Vermillion, SD Member No.: 689 |
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.
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Dec 10 2007, 04:40 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 16 Joined: 15-December 06 From: Karachi,Pakistan Member No.: 101,364 |
Ubuntu can do this without installing any additional software.
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Dec 10 2007, 05:15 AM
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Forum Regular Group: Members Posts: 184 Joined: 10-September 07 From: Southampton, UK Member No.: 155,912 |
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 -------------------- deanpcmad |
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Dec 10 2007, 07:37 AM
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Hail Groovicus! Group: Site Admin Posts: 6,454 Joined: 5-June 04 From: Vermillion, SD Member No.: 689 |
yes.
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Dec 10 2007, 10:59 AM
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Forum Regular Group: Members Posts: 184 Joined: 10-September 07 From: Southampton, UK Member No.: 155,912 |
Thanks!
If this doesn't work then I will use a Windows Live CD that I have just made with BartPE. Thanks deanpcmad -------------------- deanpcmad |
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Dec 13 2007, 03:31 AM
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 Forum Regular Group: Members Posts: 337 Joined: 2-June 06 From: Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands, England Member No.: 70,484 |
I believe (not sure) Fedora has this built in now. However, many people are less than impressed with Fedora 8.
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Dec 13 2007, 10:33 AM
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Forum Regular Group: Members Posts: 184 Joined: 10-September 07 From: Southampton, UK Member No.: 155,912 |
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 -------------------- deanpcmad |
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