Moving files: Linux to Windows?

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Furystrike

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Hey linux crowd,

I just reformatted PC and moved all my music/movies/whatever from my WinXP drive to another drive with linspire installed via the linspire interface. My problem is that I am now unable to move all the files back to windows because linspire wont let me write to that drive. Any advice/help would be appreciated! Thanks
 
Is your Windows partition FAT32 or NTFS formatted? Unless you use CaptiveNTFS, you can't write safely to NTFS partitions under Linux since the Linux NTFS driver does not have full writing capabilities yet (or at least more safely, though I hear Captive is pretty safe).
 
http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/

CaptiveNTFS application and instructions for Linux distributions - if you want to give it a shot. I've never used CaptiveNTFS, but from talking with others in the Linux world, they say it's pretty safe to use.


http://www.fs-driver.org/

This is an application that allows you to mount ext2 (and ext3 partitions with a little work) under Windows as regular partitions, and then you can just copy the data over. Again, never used before, but I hear it's safe.

If I had to choose, I'd use CaptiveNTFS first.
 
hey guys,

I finally got a solve for my problem. If you're using linspire (lindows) or anything similar and had my issue, check out reiserfsview. It works wonderfully.
 
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