Comments on: Windows NTFS Partitions Read/write support made easy in Ubuntu Feisty

By: shashank

shashank — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 02:08:56 +0000

PS also when i click on application>>system tools>>ntfs config tools i am NOT asked for any password and i directly get that “enable write support for internal/external device” window.
PS earlier also i the c drive would get mounted as “sda3″ and not as any “Windows” drive.
I am quite new to linux and i’m not sure what to do….

By: shashank

shashank — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 02:03:36 +0000

Hi.. i had installed ntgs-config,ntfs-3g and ntfs-progs on my ubuntu 7.04. i also have windows vista installed on c drive.
Before the c drive used to get mounted automatically and i could cut and delete its files but i don’t know what happened now i have to mount it as su and that too its read only.
the d drive that contains my recovery data is aceessible. Is the problem because ‘windows’ is installed in c drive??..
Also I can’t change the permissions as “its a read-only disc”.

…!!!Please help!!!…

By: melbourne

melbourne — Mon, 26 May 2008 08:28:15 +0000

hi
i followed the how to and did install ntfs-config

but when i open NTFS Configuration tool , its asks for password after i type in , it shows enable write for internal /external –the 5 th image you showed , it doesnt show me the available drives , any suggestions ??

By: tempest

tempest — Tue, 20 May 2008 21:13:16 +0000

thanks!!!

By: João Mello

João Mello — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:32:26 +0000

Good!
Thanks!

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 01:41:03 +0000

Format partition with ext3 and use ext3 windows driver (search google) in windows 2000/XP.
Works great..
Just don’t make it system/boot windows partiton. use fat32 for that.
This way all your drivers are read/write accessible from both linux and windows.

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 14:35:19 +0000

I also get the grayed out internal box (but external is okay). No password prompt, but the mounted NTFS drive is read only. Apparently i dont have the ability to change it in properties, but there is only one login.. (just switched to ubuntu 2 days ago from winxp…so i’m still very new)
thanks for any help!

By: iansane

iansane — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 16:30:18 +0000

This is very similar to the problem with windows where so many people just use the admin account as their regular account. Until I can figure out all of the sudo commands, I have to keep going back and forth between my user account and root so I had to allow root login from the welcome screen.

By: iansane

iansane — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 16:26:37 +0000

Can some one tell me how to stop my Ubuntu from auto mounting my windows partition? I’ve read a few things about how to make it automount but nothing about how to stop it, and still allow me to use sudo to mount. I don’t want other users to see it. I just want to use “sudo mount” and “sudo unmount” (I mean umount, don’t know where the logic is in removing the “n” from unmount but oh well.) from my user account. I know how to do that but at reboot or startup, it automounts so every user can see it.

By: iansane

iansane — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 16:19:44 +0000

RE: Jaime

When I delete a file on my NTFS from Ubuntu, it creates a trash file on the NTFS and puts the file in it. Don’t know if this will change by configuring the trash bin on Ubuntu to delete instead of trash. It’s like when you delete something on another partition using windows, and it creates a recycle bin on that partition. I had to log into the windows partition and show hidden files to see it.