I have installed Mandriva 2008 That I downloaded free.

I have 2 hard drives a 40 gig with windows XP AND a 100 gig with Mandriva on one partition and the other partition with pictures on it from windows but windows will not read it.

When I partitioned to install mandriva I told it to use the free space I assigned On the large drive but it seems it did something to the 39 gig I assigned to the windows pictures partition.
I want the pictures (*.jpg or *.jpeg) to be read from windows on the jump drive and I would like to make the partition which has the pictures on it and should but must not be a windows directory.

I can read the windows drive and I can read the windows partition with the pictures on it from mandriva but of course neither with the windows OS.

What I want to do is back up the file with pictures to a 2 gig jump drive or flash drive.

What I cannot figure out is a file system manager that I can use to drag and drop the files from one directory to another. I suppose from konsole or terminal I can move or copy or whatever but I want to learn the drag and drop thing and can't find it

I need to set permissions too and don't know how even when I'm in super user mode.

Thanks,
tbrownarcher (nate)

The file manager in KDE is called Konqueror it is a file manager/web browser, you should be able to set permissions with it if you right click and go to properties

I use the ext2fsd driver on Windows to read and write to ext2/3 Linux partitions. Works great.

If you have all shared data in ext3 partitions, then it is easy to control permissions, groups, etc.

Regarding copying your pictures to the USB drive...

It would be much faster and easier if would just open a terminal and do 'cp * usbdrive' where 'usbdrive' is the location of your flash drive.

Yeah, drag and drop may be more "familiar," but that doesn'tm ean it's faster oreasier.