Owen Berio wrote:
Thanks Guys,
I probably will not try to use the external HD with my Kubuntu box.
Maybe someone could explain the following in very simple language.
I copied the NTFS files from my external HD onto a CD and then put the
CD into the CD drive in the Kubuntu box and Kubuntu read them. The
Kubuntu system is pretty much 'out of the box" system. Why could
Kubuntu read the NTFS files?
Owen
after you had _read_ the files, (read access is no problem, it's witting
to the NTFS file system) from there, you _wrote_ them to a different
file system on the CD (udf?) then read from that file system, if I read
your post correctly.
most all *nix can _read_ NTFS, it's the writing that introduces the
possibility for data corruption is the reason for disabling full write
support in NTFS still, as I understand it
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