I have a dual boot PC (XP SP2 & Ubuntu - not sure where version number is recorded). My intention was to have a dual boot for a number of months until I was used to Linux and could carry out all my normal activities in this OS. I intended to be able to read and write to the windows partition when using Linux, but so far I have not been able to do this. I can see the windows partition without taking any action, but am unable to write to it. I get the message "Could not save the file /media/Data/Unsaved Document name. You are trying to save the file on a read-only disk. Please check that you typed the location correctly and try again." When first planning my dual boot system I had read that the windows partition should be formatted to FAT32 in order to support write operations, but my colleague who has been using Ubuntu for 2 or so years assured me that current versions of Linux could now support write operations. However, this appears not to be the case. I have googled this problem, but there is not really anything about it. There is a lot on actually mounting windows partitions in order to see them, but I do not have problems seeing mine. Therefore, if anyone can help I will be really pleased. It is the philosophy of Linux that attracts me, but I can see myself reverting to Windows if simple issues such as saving files cause such a hold-up. If anyone can tell me how to interrogate the release number of Ubuntu i would also be happy. Help -> About routes to web page, rather than version info as it does in Windows. Thank you

Hi tinfalco!

Ubuntu 7.04 can easily read and write to ntfs partitions, but you need to install the NTFS 3G driver. I am not sure if the same is applied to earlier versions of Ubuntu. Please follow this link for instructions about the NTFS 3G driver installation in Ubuntu:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Mo...e1aed8adb02971

Good luck!

P.S: opening a terminal and typing "uname -rs" usually gives you some clues to what OS you are running. I unfortunately can't test it now .

Thanks for that info. Within 5 minutes of reading your info I now have my NTFS partition set up for read/write from windows

Awesome tinfalco. I'm glad I could help. You probably know this already, but when I started using Ubuntu, my best friend was the Ubuntu guide:

http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu:Feisty

I found answers to nearly every question I ever had: Drivers, Media support, etc.

Just a hint .

Best Regards!