Unable to open usb drive in ubuntu

[Ric Moore]

On Fri, 2011-09-16 at 10:57 -0400, Amrit Pal Pathak wrote:
> 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.

Did that work?? Ric



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