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A Future Pilot

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Registered: 2008-10-17

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Mounting a separate hard drive

OK, so I'm putting Arch on my mom's computer which also runs windows. It has 2 hard drives, 1 with windows, and 1 with windows and Arch (the second came from an old computer that died). I put a line for each in fstab (I'll post them later, right now I'm at a different computer) to mount them from boot up. I looked online and put the options for read and write access but when they mount they say read only. I tried to change the permissions with chmod, but it says it can't change the permissions because it is read only. Same result when I try to mount it as read and write.

Please Help!

Thanks in advance!!

fukawi2

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Re: Mounting a separate hard drive

What version of Windows?  XP?

Chances are the drive you're trying to mount is NTFS, and vanilla NTFS support is read-only, with sketchy read-write support. You need to install the NTFS-3G driver, then specify the file system type as ntfs-3g when you try and mount it read-write.

See this wiki article:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NTFS_Write_Support

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Re: Mounting a separate hard drive

I'll try that, Thanks!!