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 Member 598 Level 17.68 Mar 2006 
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Ubuntu bootdisk for saving corrupt windows files.
Ok, so I fucked up my windows and I have some important shit in there. I booted ubuntu 7.04 livedisk and tried to put the files from my windows partition into my external harddrive. Should work, I've done it before. For some reason, though, my external harddrive is a read-only drive, and I cannot write anything into it. Is there any way of fixing that?
Thanks! Jam it back in, in the dark. |
Member 90 Level 33.52 Mar 2006
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If the external drive is formatted with a filesystem that doesn't have native write support in Linux, say NTFS, it will be mounted as read-only.
If that's the case, if possible, the best solution would be to reformat the external drive as FAT32. How ya doing, buddy?  |
Member 598 Level 17.68 Mar 2006
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Shit.
Thanks, anyway. This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it. |
Member 90 Level 33.52 Mar 2006
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Well, there are ways to add write support for NTFS in Linux, but I don't quite know if it's possible to install them while in a boot CD environment.
I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body? |
Member 4283 Level 25.60 Mar 2006
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Try out the Fedora 7 live CD. It should have NTFS write support off the bat.
Edit: never mind. :/ I was speaking idiomatically.
Last edited by Render; Jun 9, 2007 at 04:33 PM.
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Member 16951 Level 1.86 Dec 2006
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 yum install ntfs-3g What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now? |
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