On 9/15/19 5:05 PM, Doug McGarrett wrote:
On 09/15/2019 09:06 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 15/09/2019 06.26, Doug McGarrett wrote:
Why can't I copy a downloaded .exe file to Windows 10 on the same drive? I can access the Windows partition from Thunderbird super-user Dolphin, but I mark a file to copy and try to paste in the Windows partition, but it is grayed out. What am I doing wrong?
Open a terminal and run the command "mount -v". Paste here the line for the windows partition, or all if you don't know which it is.
1. I have a quite recent Windows 10 (new computer) and the "save changes" is grayed out, so I can't turn off the fast boot that way, and I tried holding down the shift key while selected the power down or whatever it's called from the menu, but that didn't work. There['s probably a file that could be edited, but I have no idea what or what the edit would look like.
W10 can be quirky this way, and not just for the power options. Try: Under Power Options/System Settings panel, click on "Change settings that are currently unavailable", that might release the Save button.
2. From a root terminal, mount -v /dev/sda4 comes back with message "Not found in fstab", which is true, and mount -v all produces the same thing. I looked at the fstab file and it's complicated! Now what?
mount -v /dev/sda4 will only show the mount point, or if not mounted, the error you produced. mount -v (which was asked for before, w/o partition name) will return all mounted partitions. If you are trying to mount the w10 partition rw, you can use: mount -t ntfs /dev/sda4 -o rw <filesystem mount point>
Most likely, the partition is mounted read-only (or not mounted) because Windows was stopped in fast boot mode (it is the default). The quick way to avoid that is to power up windows, then reboot to Linux directly, not halt or power off.
3. I'll try this latter, but I don't quite understand. I can't boot into Linux from a running Windows system, can I? If so, how?
Thanx for the comeback. Damn Windows anyway!
--doug
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