Reading NTFS

[Scott]

Jim wrote:
> How do you read a NTFS on Kubuntu-7.10 , I installed ntfs-config, it 
> won't run, of course
> the box I installed ntfs-config on doesn't have a NTFS partition on it. 
> if that makes a difference in executing ntfs-config.
> The drive that NTFS is on is /dev/hdb1 on a friends computer , we want 
> to read and  copy files from it, It is a crashed XP  system .
How are you trying to read files from your friends computer?  Have you 
taken the hard drive out of your friends computer and put it in your 
computer?  If you have done that you will probably need to mount the 
NTFS drive.  Kubuntu always had the ability to read NTFS drives, even 
out of the box.

You can find instructions here: 
https://wiki.kubuntu.org/mountNTFSreadonly?highlight=%28ntfs%29

-- 
Your friend,
Scott

Sent to you from a Linux computer using Kubuntu Version 7.10