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zephyrus17

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Registered: 2008-06-15

Posts: 323

Can't write to my ntfs external

So I can't write to my external ntfs anymore through kde. Even through Windows XP it's been giving me "Cannot Access" errors. I did a "chown -R gary /media/Arda-2", but that still didn't work

iBertus

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From: Greenville, NC

Registered: 2004-11-04

Posts: 2,228

Re: Can't write to my ntfs external

Dead filesystem? Bad drive? Seems odd that the drive isn't seen in Windows either; makes me doubt that it's something easily fixed.

zephyrus17

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Registered: 2008-06-15

Posts: 323

Re: Can't write to my ntfs external

Well, I could copy stuff into it from Windows yesterday afternoon. And gparted scan says it's fine. So it's probably some user permission thing

SiC

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From: Liverpool, England

Registered: 2008-01-10

Posts: 430

Re: Can't write to my ntfs external

Run chkdsk on it from windows and see what it says... If it comes up with any errors, re-run it, could be any number of things causing  issues.

fukawi2

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Re: Can't write to my ntfs external

So it's probably some user permission thing

Can you access the files as root?

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zephyrus17

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Registered: 2008-06-15

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Re: Can't write to my ntfs external

I can. Oddly, it fixed itself. However, the owner is root, but I can still create files and such using a non-root user. I am sharing it with Windows and such, so will that affect my access in the future?