Wednesday, June 6, 2007

Thursday June 7 2007 - enabling write access to NTFS drives

Another success to follow my crash and burn two days ago. I was put on this scent by yet another useful snippet in the trusty unofficial Feisty guide at: ubuntuguide.org
The particular section in question is entitled '1.17.5 How to mount Windows partitions (NTFS) on boot-up, and allow users read and write access'.

In a nutshell:
* Enable universe repository in Synaptic
* In Synpatic search for 'NTFS', you should find 'NTFS-config', the NTFS Configuration Tool - install it.
* Find 'NTFS Configuration Tool' in the Applications menu under System Tools - open it and check 'Enable Write Support';

That's it. It worked. And now I can save any file I'm working on to the 'My Documents' I'd set up on an NTFS drive for WinXP.

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