hey im really stressed with this is it actualy posible to actualy write to an ntfs of fat32 hard drive from linux? because ive tried making the mounted hard drive mount folder to 777 rebooted but yet it still dont work can you please tell me howto do this?

you can write to fat32 if you mount it correctly i.e. setting umask=000 will let *anyone* write to it. write support for ntfs is too dangerous to advocate, don't do it.

for fat 32 drive or partision

mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/hdd
hda1 is first fat32 partison of first ide disk and u will have to creat your target directory

for NTFS use thses 3 command with urs requiements
1-mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows -t ntfs -r
2-mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows -t ntfs -r -o umask=0222
3-mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows -t ntfs -r -o umask=0222,uid=flatcap,gid=winuser
visit this usefull site
1-http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/info/redhat.html


2-Using Linux in a Microsoft Environment
http://mailman.linuxtag.org/~spindler/talks/Stormacq/

i have done with these good sites
enjoy

cheers! aslong as i can write to the fat32 thats the main fhing.

humm still wont let me write to it.

LABEL=/ / ext2 defaults 1 1
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
/dev/hdk1 /mnt/installedgames ntfs defaults,owner,ro,umask=222,gid=100 0 0
/dev/hda1 /mnt/win2k ntfs defaults,owner,ro,umask=002,gid=100 0 0
/dev/hdb5 /mnt/downloads vfat defaults,owner,ro,umask=000,gid=100 0 0
/dev/hde1 /mnt/120gb ntfs defaults,owner,ro,umask=222,gid=100 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
#


see:

/dev/hdb5 /mnt/downloads vfat defaults,owner,ro,umask=000,gid=100 0 0

im sure thats write but when i say create a new folder it says:

Error "Read only file system" creating new folder.

when i try: mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows -t ntfs -r -o umask=0222,uid=flatcap,gid=winuser

i get error:
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hde1,
or too many mounted file systems

what do you think "ro" stands for?

read only? dam!

I see in my hardware browser : hda1(fat32),hda3(fat32),hda4(fat32),hda6(Linux ext3),...
but i don't see hda... in /dev/
how can i mount hda1?
please help me!!

Humm, can you take a SS of your hardware browser showing this info.