Unable to open usb drive in ubuntu

[Amrit Pal Pathak]

On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 10:00 AM, Ioannis Vranos
<ioannis.vranos at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 2:04 PM, Amrit Pal Pathak
> <amritpalpathak1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > My usb being open in windows but in linux (ubuntu),system shows it but
> when
> > i click on it to open,it doesn't open.If i directly try to copy its
> contents
> > ,it gives the error
> > "There was an error copying the file into /home/amrit/Desktop"
> > "Can't open mountable file"
> > please anybody help to to get rid of it.
>
>
> I suppose you are talking about a USB external hard disk, formatted in
> NTFS.
>
>
> Install the packages:
>
> ntfs-3g, ntfsprogs
> Already had installed.
>
>
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Thanks

Regards

Amrit Pal

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