NTFS DRIVE IS READ ONLY

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    thaman092

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    I have a WD passport essential that is 320gb. I have been looking for a solution to no avail. When I plug the drive in, I get a splash in the corner of my screen telling me that since it is NTFS that i can only read it. Is there a fix to this or is linpus just not meant to write to NTFS devices. I do have NTFS-3g installed but I do not have NTFS Config in my menu. I have factory restored my system, but that didn't help. Please help me, I really don't want to have to go to FAT. Thanks!!
     
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    Mount the device with ntfs-3g, then you should have rw access.
    man ntfs-3g for more info.
     
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    I apologize, but I don't have a clue as to wwhat you mean. Could you elaborate on that method. And what does "man ntfs-3g" mean?
     
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    I can't explain the technicalilties, but Linux is reluctant to mount NTFS drives as writeable as NTFS is proprietary Microsoft technology. Advice given to me in the past indicated that I would be accepting a degree of risk by mounting an NTFS drive under Linux as read/write. But things may have moved on.

    Matt
     
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