<HTML><BODY STYLE="font:10pt verdana; border:none;"><DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I'll give that a try but for now I've just made a small 2Gb FAT32 partition.I only need it for when I dl stuff cuz I've only got 56k winmodems and the only hardware modem I have is a external 28.8Kbs.</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt Arial">----- Original Message -----</DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt Arial; COLOR: black"><B>From:</B> Brad Noyes</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt Arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, April 27, 2002 11:34 AM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt Arial"><B>To:</B> discuss@blu.org</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt Arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: problems accesing windows partition</DIV> <DIV> </DIV><BR>This page might offer some more detial<BR>http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/<BR>i have used linux to read NTFS, i would not dare to write to an NTFS partition.<BR><BR><BR>On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 10:58:11PM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:<BR>> Note that Linux only supports NTFS in ReadOnly mode, and very<BR>> poorly at that... I would highly recommend, if you want to<BR>> share the file system, that you revert back to FAT32.<BR>><BR>> -derek<BR>><BR>> "Michael ." <angelfly91@hotmail.com> writes:<BR>><BR>> > I'm running Mandrake 8.1 set on dual boot with Win XP Prof. and never had any problems accessing the windows partition but recently I converted it from a FAT32 to NTFS I'm pretty sure I've set up linux correctly but I can only get in as root and if I try to change the permissions it won't let meGet more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com<BR>><BR>> --<BR>> Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory<BR>> Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB)<BR>> URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/ PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH<BR>> warlord@MIT.EDU PGP key available<BR>> _______________________________________________<BR>> Discuss mailing list<BR>> Discuss@blu.org<BR>> http://www.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss<BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Discuss mailing list<BR>Discuss@blu.org<BR>http://www.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss<BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML><br clear=all><hr>Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : <a href='http://explorer.msn.com'>http://explorer.msn.com</a><br></p>