Re: changing USB flash drive permissions
On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 04:11:52 -0800
"Weaver" <weaver@riseup.net> wrote:
>
> > Hi All
> > How do you change the drive permissions of a USB plugin flash
> > It was written with winxp, I feel nauseous every time I type that,
> > and is read only
> > Thanks
>
> I've found that MS put a funny little file on the drive when it's
> formatted to NTFS which makes it inaccessible through Unix variants.
> When I format the same drive to NTFS through Debian, I don't have that
> problem.
>
> Is this what's happening?
> regards,
>
> Weaver.
>
Hi
Yes that looks like it, thanks , I'll save the contents to a file and
reformat it, then copy them back. Another reason to hate MS
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Richard Bown
e-mail: richard@g8jvm.com or richard.bown@blueyonder.co.uk
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