<div>On 28/11/2007, Pat Rice <<a href="mailto:patrick.j.rice@gmail.com">patrick.j.rice@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> hi all I would like to know how to read ntfs, on xubuntu I've been using this guide <a href="http://www.howtoforge.com/ubuntu_edgy_eft_ntfs_ntfs_3g" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> http://www.howtoforge.com/ubuntu_edgy_eft_ntfs_ntfs_3g</a> but I cannot install the package for ntfs, I have the deb <a href="http://flomertens.keo.in/ubuntu/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://flomertens.keo.in/ubuntu/</a> edgy main main-all in to the sources.list and have updated but still no joy on doing an install anyone got any ideas on this, I can mount a USB drive fine, or any have any links on this, i can see the drives are connected. Thanks Pat </blockquote></div> IIRC Xubuntu 7.04 introduced the ability to read from ntfs and 7.10 also allows you to write to it. Would it be too much trouble to try and install a newer version of Xubuntu? -- Vincent