1 Topic by oobsniper2000 (edited by oobsniper2000 2008-06-19 23:35:09)

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Topic: live USB & NTFS

Howdy, I'm new to gparted (and not much of a linux expert) so please forgive the basic questions.  I've looked around the docs & the forums and still don't quite understand how to setup a usb flash drive to boot into gparted & have ntfs formatting capabilities.  I see how to use the simple windows app to format & make a usb drive bootable and how to burn the live usb .iso image, but it isn't clear how to add the ability to add ntfs support.

From the docs it looks like I need to add ntfsprog.  I know how to build & install it in cygwin, but I'm clueless how/where to add the utils to the flash image once I've burned the live USB image.  How do I do this?

thanks

edit:  well, the flash drive gets the zip files, not the .iso image smile  I built ntfsprogs and found that it generated .exe files for each util.  Do I just copy those onto the flash drive?

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Re: live USB & NTFS

I can run LiveUSB just fine and it appears to already have NTFS support built into it so no worries there. 

Thanks.

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Re: live USB & NTFS

Live versions contain all needed software.

*** It is highly recommended to backup any important files before doing resize/move operations. ***

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Re: live USB & NTFS

I created two Live CDs and tried them and cannot read ntfs the volume on my Windows 2003 server. It lists them and recognizes them as ntfs volumes and that it is a boot device but it will not let me mount it or work with it in anyway. How can I add support for ntfs? I see no way to accomplish this. Despite insistence that it is included, I cannot access ntfs volumes. 

class413 wrote:

Live versions contain all needed software.

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Re: live USB & NTFS

gnbrooks, it is better to create a new thread for your situation.

What version of the Live CD are you using?

What commands are you using to mount and umount the NTFS file systems?