Re: FixMbr?

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ManyBeers wrote:

"Stephen Harris" wrote:



SH: I will download this, experiment and let you know the results.

I actually checked that program out first but decided on the read/wtite software.Maybe I will get this stuff instead after all.

Here is a thread from the Ubuntu forum on dual booting and fs-driver.

http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-340145.html
Subject: Testing the FS-Driver to read/write ext3 from WinXP
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The stable ntfs-3g driver now allows linux systems to read and
write NTFS formatted partitions. Since using it varies between
Ubuntu releases, there is a separate page explaining how to use
ntfs-3g in your release version.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MountingWindowsPartitions/ThirdPartyNTFS3G

The ntfs-3g packages comes pre-installed with the newest versions of Ubuntu, but you still need to install ntfs-config if you want the GUI configuration tool. Type: sudo apt-get install ntfs-config <enter>
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Configuration the Automatic Way.Launch NTFS Configuration Tool
from Applications->System Tools, or via the terminal:

gksudo ntfs-config
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SH: It used to be very unreliable to write to Windows NTFS
from Linux. I don't see the point of writing to Ubuntu from
Windows with fs-driver because you can't use them in Ubuntu
until you boot to Ubuntu anyway. And if you are in Ubuntu
you can just import whatever files from Windows you want
(kept in say C:\Transfers) then. I think this works for
data files like, documents and images and I don't think
you can mix Windows and Linux executables (.exe) anyway.

You can mount a Windows partition automatically in fstab.
Ubuntu's filesystem table is located at '/etc/fstab'.
Now, be sure to save a backup of fstab first, then open
the file for editing [manual method]:

save: sudo cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab.orig

edit: gksudo gedit /etc/fstab

After entering your password, find the line that matches the
device location you just found and change it to the following.
If there is no entry yet, add a new line like the following:

<your part.> /media/<mount point> ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_US.utf8 0 0

The command to see all the registered partitions is:
First you need to find the device location of the NTFS partition(s) you want to mount. In terminal, run:

sudo fdisk -l | grep NTFS | awk '{print $1}'
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SH: Like I said, I just found out about reading NTFS by Linux
now being reliable. So if one is going to just use fs-driver
for reading and extracting files from Linux with Windows, I
guess it would just depend on whether Linux-Reader offers a
better graphical interface. Linux-Reader is a pretty good GUI.

Regards,
Stephen




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