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? <div>On 11/4/07, Jim <<a href="mailto:mickeyboa@sbcglobal.net"> mickeyboa@sbcglobal.net</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">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: > <a href="https://wiki.kubuntu.org/mountNTFSreadonly?highlight=%28ntfs%29">https://wiki.kubuntu.org/mountNTFSreadonly?highlight=%28ntfs%29</a> > > 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 -- kubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:kubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">kubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-users">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div>