I appear somehow to have corrupted one of my hard drives. It can't be accessed in Windows Explorer, nor in disk management. Now this happened to me before, so I slyly plopped in my Slax LiveCD, and, thank god, the data was there. Now the problem - is it possible to write to NTFS in Linux? Or do I need to format my external hard drive to copy the data over. When I try now, it says wrong permissions, but I can't change the permissions. I suppose I could copy it all to DVDs, but thats a last resort!
As far as I know there isn't any Linux distro that can write to NTFS - you can read them, but not write afaik. If you don't have permission, try making a fresh install of 2000/XP with full permissions and see if it'll let you access it that way.
I don't really think it's worth doing a clean install. To be honest, there's nothing irreplaceable on it, and the stuff that I really want or havent backed up recently I can put on DVD through Slax, ie Music ETC. So I'll do that and then reformat I guess... Thanks for reply.
No, no, not a clean install, another install, either on a new partition, or on a new HD altogether - you can dual-boot them, and then just delete the other when you've finished.
http://everythingelse.wordpress.com/2006/07/19/89/ http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=10175 pretty sure linux has some good ntfs R/W support now... sometimes its a toss up, but i would try a ubuntu feisty live cd and see where that gets you.. if you are already in the frame of mind that if you lose it, no big deal, its worth a shot
