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HI folks Have just installed debian/sarge with kde gui on my laptop via multi boot. And am wondering if it's possible to see the windows drive? if so how would ...
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    Windows ntfs drive question

    HI folks

    Have just installed debian/sarge with kde gui on my laptop via multi boot. And am wondering if it's possible to see the windows drive? if so how would I go about this??

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    Quote Originally Posted by lohtse
    HI folks

    Have just installed debian/sarge with kde gui on my laptop via multi boot. And am wondering if it's possible to see the windows drive? if so how would I go about this??

    regards
    Andrew
    First, do you want Read Access or Read/Write Access? Second, post the output of "fdisk -l".
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    Quote Originally Posted by tech_man
    First, do you want Read Access or Read/Write Access. Second, post the output of "fdisk -l".

    Would like to read and write as using linux at home but windows at work(pain in the arse).. FDISK????

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    Go to the shell, terminal, command line, what have you, and type "apt-get install ntfs-3g" and then "fdisk -l". Post the output of the latter.
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    Quote Originally Posted by tech_man
    Go to the shell, terminal, command line, what have you, and type "apt-get install ntfs-3g" and then "fdisk -l". Post the output of the latter.

    Hi thank you for your help BUT did the apt bit and got this debian:~# apt-get install nfts-g3
    Reading Package Lists... Done
    Building Dependency Tree... Done
    E: Couldn't find package nfts-g3



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    Did you type 3g or g3?
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    Quote Originally Posted by tech_man
    Did you type 3g or g3?

    as per earlier post that you did

    apt-get install ntfs-3g also changed to g3
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    My mistake, it is only available in Sid. Try this tutorial.
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