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Subject: problems accesing windows partition
From: warlord at MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Date: 26 Apr 2002 22:58:11 -0400
In-reply-to: <OE74gU2YxztzuqiFm2700000c5f@hotmail.com>
References: <OE74gU2YxztzuqiFm2700000c5f@hotmail.com>

Note that Linux only supports NTFS in ReadOnly mode, and very
poorly at that...  I would highly recommend, if you want to
share the file system, that you revert back to FAT32.

-derek

"Michael ." <angelfly91 at hotmail.com> writes:

> I'm running Mandrake 8.1 set on dual boot with Win XP Prof. and never had any problems accessing the windows partition but recently I converted it from a FAT32 to NTFS I'm pretty sure I've set up linux correctly but I can only get in as root and if I try to change the permissions it won't let meGet more from the Web.  FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com

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