urgent help please !!!

deepdark · 01-01-2005, 06:38 PM

installed a suse 9.2 on same hdd where is XP installed and all is fine but why i cant copy some files to the XP partition?

buffed317 · 01-01-2005, 06:45 PM

XP uses the NTFS file system. you have to have a kernel that supports writing to NTFS. even with that there are severe limits to what you can do and also a chance of corrupting data.

deepdark · 01-01-2005, 06:45 PM

hmm but why on anoher pc same suse can write a HDD in ntfs without OS

ima · 01-01-2005, 07:32 PM

Maybe the drive on the other system is not formatted NTFS, but rather is formatted FAT32

deepdark · 01-02-2005, 02:04 AM

ok thx for your help and i have another question i am using a suse on sony vaio laptop how to get work the system keys for sound and brignest?

gd2shoe · 01-02-2005, 11:39 PM

Usually the best solution to getting XP and Linux to share data with one another on the same machine is to have a small FAT32 partition that both can get to (I wouldn't install either into a FAT32, just along side one).

If you do want to attempt to write to an NTFS partition then you should look into captive-ntfs.

(P.S. the reason for this problem is that Microsoft has not publicly released the full specifications for NTFS. Incomplete specs leads to incomplete software.)