Reading NTFS

[Martin Walshe]

Can you see the actual drive icon in dolphin?
If you can what kind of error do you get when you try to read the drive?

On 11/4/07, Jim <mickeyboa at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
> Scott wrote:
> > 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
> >
> >
> I'm using the mount command on his computer, installed kubuntu-7.10 on it.
> His XP system crashed, I put the drive in hdb behind Kubuntu to see if I
> could read it
> No matter what mount command I give it, it has problems with reading
> NTFS part.
> I installed ntfs3g-config but it won't show files in /media/hdb1
>
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