So I got a new usb hard drive while I was running vista and formated it to NTFS. This worked fine, but when I installed Ubuntu and got read/write up and running on NTFS partitions, a large problem surfaced. I am unable to write to my newly formated NTFS drive. My old NTFS drives work fine, formatted under winXP. I have a feeling it has to do with vistas expanded permissions system, as I can read data off the drive fine. If anyone knows of a way to set the permissions so linux can write, or just blow away vista permission data without losing data on the drive, that would be great. I really don't want to have to boot into vista just to copy a couple of files to my drive.
Let me know what you think of this issue. Also, I can read and write to the root Vista partition (install partition) just fine. It seems to be an issue only with drives formatted using vista.

Thank you,
Joseph Coyne

Post your /etc/fstab

As you can write to one ntfs partition, there may be something wrong with the other partition. Win XP uses ntfs3.1 the file version may have changed in Vista