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Old 08-30-2006, 01:40 PM   #1
poetfreak
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Unhappy remount USB Disk Read Write

Mepis by default mounts my USB Win32 Disk Drive as read-only (or write-protected), and I need to write to it to save a failing hard drive. Help me remount this correctly, please!
 
Old 08-30-2006, 01:49 PM   #2
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you only get read access to windows partitions on linux. you would need to download something that would support ntfs format. there are pkgs available search for em
 
  


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