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eze888

New Member

Registered: 2009-03-29

Posts: 2

File writing/ pasting issues

I am currently running cruchbang off of my live cd as in right now.
I had planned on installing it to a one of my older hardrives. 
I currently have 4 hardrives connected to the system 3 of which I had planned to copy and paste
data to the 4th hardrive. 
2 of these hardrives had windows xp home and the third has 98.
I could not remember the password to any of these windows systems which is paritally why i turned to crunchbang.

MY PROBLEM
I can not copy and paste any information to my 4th larger hardrive.

When i right click on a files (that is on one of my hardrives) it always says that i can read and execute but writing is usually not there.  I am assuming that is the source of my problem.
When I try to change the permission to give myself access to writing it usually says access denied.

Is their a way that I can give my self all file rights to all files ?

I looked and I did not see any similar issues,
any help would be appreciated.

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pxl8r

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From: Helsinki

Registered: 2009-01-18

Posts: 32

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Re: File writing/ pasting issues

You can access the pcman -filemanager with root priviledges from the main menu under Tools & Utilities > PCMan File Manager (root).

Be careful, you can easily delete something important with root priviledges.

Or maybe the drive in question is formatted using NTFS?

Last edited by pxl8r (2009-03-29 22:40:28)

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eze888

New Member

Registered: 2009-03-29

Posts: 2

Re: File writing/ pasting issues

the root privileges thing worked thank you.
I am not sure what file system i am using.
I would guess that the 2 xp drives are ntfs
and 98 is fat36.

Is there a way i can find this out?

Also I am trying to install cb to my 98 hardrive, but going through installation it does not see any partitions to install on.  Do you know what could cause this?

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