How do I move files from a ntfs drive to a ext3 drive?
I tried to use konqueror to access the ntfs drive. I can see it but i cant access the media inside that drive, neither it allows me to mount that drive. I am trying to move my music collection from an external ntfs drive to an internal 250gb ext3 drive. When i try to do that it displays a message saying that i dont have permisions to that operation
PS The ntfs in an external usb hard drive.I am a complete noob. thanx in advance |
What distro are you using? How is the ntfs drive mounted?
Post the output of 'mount' here. Cheers, Tink |
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i am using pclinuxos 2007. the ntfs drive is not mounted, it wont let me mount, when i tried it gave me a "permissions denied" error message. the only drive mounted is the one i have the os and the ext 3 empty drive that i want to move the media into. |
I would suggest going into the terminal and running a few commands to check things out. in the terminal type
df -h This will show you what is mounted and where. Here's my output Code:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on 36GB primary hard drive, 37GB secondary hard drive that contains everything under the directory /vmware 230GB hard drive (In this case USB) that contains everything under the /Backup directory. This will make sure you have the drive mounted to your system. If it's there then it's just a problem with permissions. And assuming you have root access than getting the data should be a big thing. If it's not mounted then thats an entirely different path to take. I hope this is helpful and please post what you find. |
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/dev/hdb1 7.7G 2.5G 4.9G 34% / /dev/hdb6 102G 316M 101G 1% /home /dev/sda1 133G 33M 126G 1% /mnt/win_d /dev/sda2 94G 33M 89G 1% /media/disk this is what i can see....the 80gb external ntfs drive is not there....and the strange thing is that sda1 and sda2 refers to external hd wich in this case is not correct.....the only external hd that i have is not there. |
ok, well since The dive is not connected to your system we need to mount it
You need to know the device that your external drive is seen as. In my case sda and sdb are the two internal drives. Any additional drives that I have are added to that (i.e. sdc, sdd, sde,...). So to mount the first partition of my external hard drive I use Code:
mount /dev/sdc1 /Backup If you can't I would try assuming /deb/sdb1 and executing (as root!) Code:
mount -t ntfs /dev/sdb1 [folder on your system] Please post any error you get. I hope this helps |
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thx for the help....i found the problem. My ntfs hard drive was unplugged from windows without using the "safely remove hardware" option. This caused an error in the disc. I logged into window$ and performed a defrag and a scandisc and once i logged back to Linux the problem was solved. Thanx a lot for the help. Adrian |
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