On 12/11/09 15:42, Mike McMullin wrote:
On Wed, 2009-11-11 at 22:46 +1100, Basil Chupin wrote:
On 11/11/09 16:58, Mike McMullin wrote:
On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 23:52 +1100, Basil Chupin wrote:
I apologise for the following longish message which, possibly, may belong in the off-topic list... but also doesn't belong there.... Please bear with me..
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The second hassle.
A couple of weeks ago, when I was interstate, I bought a couple of 500GB Western Digital HDs. These are now the ones which have 11.2 installed on them, and they are working fine... with a possible qualification.
The qualification is that I installed XP SP2 to start with, before installing oS 11.2, and created my "usual" ntfs partitions on both HDs. No drama here.
However, I also have an external 500GB Maxtor USB drive - factory formatted in ntfs- which I use for backing-up files both from both Linux and 'old' installation/s of XP (residing on other set/s of HDs).
Home or Pro? I know someone who had a quite similar problem and it turned out to be permission/ownership in Windows.
Pro.
I had a gut feeling that this is where the problem may lie and I will now have a close look at what I set up during the installation.
Many thanks for your response.
His original HD was set up under Pro. He did tell me that he got it to work, but could not remember what solution worked, I figured he fired a try this/that/other thing volley at it until it resolved.
Thanks, Mike, I'll look at this again at the first opportunity. Since everything is really backed up I may even simply start from scratch...and let 'nature takes its' course' - so to speak. I did consider that the MS version of ntfs had again changed with the introduction of Vista (like it did in XP from NT) but I have not this to be case so permissions seem to be cause of my problem. BC -- I work to live not live to work. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org