[SOLVED] Complete Newb- a few questions, urgent help please.

[zanesin666]

hi,

I'm a complete noob when it comes to linux, so please avoid asking me the most complex of questions.

All i know is.

I have a 20gig hard drive with Linux 12 on it. I also have my old windows hard drive which is 500g which i have sucessfully mounted, and I wish to recover the data off it and put onto another hard drive to be accessed when i reinstall windows (XP). The other hard drive i'm talking about is a USB external hard drive 100g.

i have managed to mount the external hard drive but it always says i don't have write permission. And to make things worse, my father disonnected it, so now its no longer mounted, but there are still files that were created from making it, in the root directory (/mnt/backup)?

How can I mount it again, under a new file name or whatever, and be able to write to it, while being able to be later accessed by windows.
I don't mind if there are pointless folders made in the process, i'm only bent on recovering my data from the old windows drive.

Thanks if you can make any sense of this.

[devils casper]

Hi and Welcome !

What error message does mount command throw when try to mount partitions of External disk?

[javilin93]

Hello
First to mount the drive

sudo mount /dev/hdb2 /mnt/backup

/dev/hdb2 being the partition you want to mount to backup
next mount the other drive to another directory(the same way)
Next

sudo thunar

and now you should have the permissions to copy

[zanesin666]

i've sucessfully mounted both the 500g windows NTFS drive, and the external 100g gig hard drive. Though im still having problems copying over.

The windows drive is entirely windows, no linux partition on it at all.
The hard drive is empty.

The Windows Hard drive is mounted as /mnt/XP- this drive is Sata btw
The external drive is mounted as /mnt/xpbackup- this drive is USB.

when i mounted them i mounted the XP one as /dev/sda1 /mnt/XP
and the external as /dev/sdb1 /mnt/xpbackup

i created the folders earlier.

I'm just throwing all this info
Is there a simple way i can just overide the permissions.

THanks again

[zanesin666]

all i want to be able to do is to just drag and drop files i want from the 500g hard drive(sata internal) to the external 100g (usb) one.

if that makes my goal seem any more simple.

[devils casper]

Execute this

mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /mnt/xpbackup -o defaults,umask=0

[zanesin666]

cheers all but i got it solved,

I reformatted the external HD with FAT32, and when i mounted it again, it worked perfectly and i've already transferred all my data.

Sometimes the most simple way is the best :S, just wish i had remembered linux likes fat32 more then ntfs.

thanks all

[devils casper]

Linux support NTFS write access too and a few distros support write access out of box. Its very easy to enable ntfs write access in other distros. Install ntfs-3g package to enable NTFS read/write access.

Anyways, glad to know that your problem has been sorted out. Do start a new thread if you have any other question.