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Jas

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15th May 09 at 10:29

now that Im back I want to put them on my external hdd for windows

When I plugged the hdd in.

it would only let me view whats on there but wouldn't let me put anything from my linux laptop on it

I have loads of films series and holiday photos on there

anyway round this?

PhilC

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15th May 09 at 10:39

Not a Linuix expert by any means, but it sounds like either you don't have write permissons for it, or the OS doesn't suppose FAT32/NTFS partitions.

Try logging in as root, and see if that helps?
Do you have any other disks that are formatted in the same file system?

If it is to do with file systems, use google to find instructions on adding additional formats.

It could also be neoither of these things. Hopefully someone with a bit more linux experience can help..??

willay

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15th May 09 at 11:02

need to know the filesystem that the external hdd is using.

if its NTFS, you'll need to install ntfs-3g onto your laptop to write to it.

PhilC

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15th May 09 at 22:24

When I said Linux expert, I meant Willay anyway!

Doug

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16th May 09 at 07:03

Could you attach it to the home network and make the stuff shared so you can transfer it that way?

Jas

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16th May 09 at 13:15

nah wont let me put nothing on NTFS

so only way I can really do it is..

put everything on my phone, n85 8gb and copy it that way, but it takes FOREVER lol

Cavey

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16th May 09 at 14:12

Is there such thing as a linux emulator? or installing linux on a different partition on your windows pc? would then, i assume read the external hdd and be able to move files?

James_DT

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16th May 09 at 14:13

quote:
Originally posted by Jas
nah wont let me put nothing on NTFS

so only way I can really do it is..

put everything on my phone, n85 8gb and copy it that way, but it takes FOREVER lol

As above, install ntfs-3g on the Linux machine and mount the drive using that. ntfs-3g gives you write access to NTFS volumes.

drunkenfool

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16th May 09 at 15:16

Jas, you could plug it in round mind sometime if you wanted and get the rest of the epsidoes at the same time. I got a 2TB NAS on gigabit LAN so you could just connect to that over the network