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problems accesing windows partition



Note that Linux only supports NTFS in ReadOnly mode, and very
poorly at that...  I would highly recommend, if you want to
share the file system, that you revert back to FAT32.

-derek

"Michael ." <angelfly91 at hotmail.com> writes:

> 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

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       Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
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