Copying data from NTFS drive

[Lewis Futrell]

You may want to try adding the drive to fstab

/dev/hd??	/mnt/windows	ntfs	ro,umask=00020

The umask is the important part.  It allows all users read access to the
drive.  I've copied many files from my XP partition to linux as a regular
user this way.

-----Original Message-----
From: Charles Malespin [mailto:charles.malespin at gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 6:04 PM
To: Ubuntu Help and User Discussions
Subject: Re: Copying data from NTFS drive


> 
> It may be true that you can only read from NTFS partitions,
> not write to them, but fortunately all you want to do here
> is read from them. Here's what you want to do:
> 
> 1) Attach the old drive to your machine somehow. It should
>    be auto-mounted, such that when you look in dmesg you see
>    something like '/dev/hda' or '/dev/sda'.
> 
> 2) Create a mount point for your Windows partition. I
>    recommend putting it in /mnt -- e.g.,
> 
>    sudo mkdir /mnt/windows
> 
> 3) Do an fstab on the drive you found in step 1, to see
>    which specific partition is the NTFS one:
> 
>    sudo fstab -l /dev/hda
> 
>    (for instance)
> 
> 4) Mount the partition to the mount point you created:
> 
>    sudo mount -t ntfs /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows
> 
>    (for instance)
> 
> See if that does the trick for you.
> 


Ok.... I managed to mount the drive and access the linux part fine and
take all the data I needed off of that.  When  I got to the windows part
I could only access it using su -   not sudo.  SO I was root the whole
time and I transfered all the files over fine(all was music etc).  But
now I cant use any of the music cause it all belongs to the root
user....  Am I goign to have to manually go and rechange the permissions
for all of this stuff, and if so how do I do it?  I didnt realize this
until I had already transfered most of the data over, so its all been
divided into genre folders in my music so this will be a pain to sort
through each song manually.  Any ideas?