Patrick
Sat Jul 19 18:27:32 PDT 2008
"Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.com> wrote in message
news:eieCAFg6IHA.4352@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
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> "Big_Al" <BigAl@md.com> wrote in message
> news:OxVL7Ag6IHA.3856@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
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>> Not sure if this is going to help, but read Symantec's response to this.
>>
http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/powerquest.nsf/14b83717f88cabd988256e970047ceab/7e5bfd9daaf056ca88256e75007cbc41?OpenDocument&src=bar_sch_nam
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>> I'll say the obvious, you know NTFS is better than fat32.
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> Yeah but linux doesn't read or write to ntfs.
This hasn't been true for about three years. You may need to update your
Linux release.
> I convert to ntfs to defrag then convert to fat32. A file attribute is
> missing. Yes that's the error I get but chkdsk doesn't help.
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> Bill
I have a very hard time believing that "linux doesn't read or write to NTFS"
when there are so many Linux-based NT/XP password reset utilities.
These simply could *not* work without the ability to read from AND write to
NTFS.
Also, if you boot an XP/NTFS system from a Ubuntu boot disk, you can use
Ubuntu's file managers to access the NTFS disk.
You may have a problem with some versions of the *Mac* OS and writing to
NTFS; it's been a while since I tried this.
HTH
-pk