Slax / Other Linux Distro and Portable HDD

osaddictosaddict London, UK
edited November 2009 in Science & Tech
I've burned a few linux distos to CD to recover documents from a PC which isn't booting into Vista. This is working fine, however, when I try to plug in a Seagate FreeAgent Go into the PC it's read only, I can see how to set it to write but it doesn't let me.

Slax seems quite nice, as does Knoppix, so, does anyone know how I can make this drive writeable - otherwise memory sticks is a bit of a pain when it's around 20 gb or so!

Comments

  • osaddictosaddict London, UK
    edited November 2009
    Turns out we have someone who used to be an admin on several Linux servers, so he's came to the rescue and sorted it out for me :)
  • ardichokeardichoke Icrontian
    edited November 2009
    Glad to hear they got it figured out for you. If you could post what they did here for completeness that would be nice. IIRC, the NTFS module for Linux, though stable, is still considered experimental by most distributions since the code is reverse engineered thus they default to mounting such partitions as read only to prevent damage.
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