http://www.jessirae.com/blog/articles/2007/02/01/ntfs-and-fat-compatible-finally en-us 40 <p><em>My problem</em></p> <ul> <li>Had an external hard drive that I used with my MS Windows machine. </li> <li>Got a new linux machine. </li> <li>External hard drive did not allow linux machine to write to it &#8211; because hard drive is <span class="caps">NTFS</span>.</li> </ul> <p>How could I write to external hard drive from linux machine without re-formatting the external hard drive?</p> <em>My solution</em> <ul> <li><a href="http://howtoforge.com/ubuntu_edgy_eft_ntfs_ntfs_3g">Follow this tutorial</a> on How To Use <span class="caps">NTFS</span> Drives/Partitions Under Ubuntu Edgy Eft</li> </ul> <p>The only instruction I would add to this tutorial is that you must have properly ejected the external hard drive from your Windows machine in order for Edgy to mount the drive.</p> <p><span class="caps">UPDATE</span>: I just found <a href="http://www.arsgeek.com/?p=585">these instructions for mounting your Windows partition and making it read/writable</a>.</p> Thu, 01 Feb 2007 20:03:00 -0500 urn:uuid:6ae95f15-78fe-4218-80c2-6922e8c17312 Jessica http://www.jessirae.com/blog/articles/2007/02/01/ntfs-and-fat-compatible-finally technology system file fat ntfs windows linux http://www.jessirae.com/blog/articles/trackback/8408