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**Done_Fishin** · 07-05-2009, 08:11 AM

most likely your 80GB drive was formatted for windows in NTFS so you may want to install wine

NTFS is not compatible with Linux and your files will be read only. Best thing to do is back up everything on that drive that you want to be able to access later then format it in FAT32 which Linux can read and is compatible .. also means that you can plug it into and use it on a windows machine as well.

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Done_Fishin Moderator Hardware Team Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Brit living in Greece Posts: 7,516 OS: WinME, WinXP Pro SP3, Win7 Beta, Ubuntu 9.04 & Netbook Remix & CD2USB, Mepis 6.5, Fedora 10 My System	Re: Just installed Ubuntu, a few questions most likely your 80GB drive was formatted for windows in NTFS so you may want to install wine NTFS is not compatible with Linux and your files will be read only. Best thing to do is back up everything on that drive that you want to be able to access later then format it in FAT32 which Linux can read and is compatible .. also means that you can plug it into and use it on a windows machine as well. __________________ . . I'm not old!! I'm age impaired .. D_F I DON'T PLAY GAMES How to mark your thread as solved HDD DIAG UTILS TSF's Photographer's Corner