Using testing, with a custom kernel 2.6.6 into which I built write support for ntfs. Cannot write to the XP partition, though it is clearly readable. Put this in fstab: /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows ntfs user,owner,rw,exec,umask=000 0 0 and created /mnt/windows to keep it in. Did this: chmod a=rwx /mnt/windows Still, nothing I have done will allow me to write to that partition. Googling has gotten me this far, but does anybody see what I'm doing wrong? Thanks