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In your case, you should first see if you can log on to the X11 GUI as root.

If not, here are some instructions on remounting the NTFS file systems, so that they are readable to all users:

http://www.linuxforum.com/linux_tutorials/1/1.php

You will, at least, need to launch a root shell to do this.  su and sudo commands may help there, depending how your LiveCD works.

I think it has something to do with the rights you have on these devices.
See the fstab part on the page adeptus gave

I've got that working, but I really need write access. How would I do that? I don't need to create files, just delete and move.

Linux doesn't _really_ support writing to NTFS partitions. If you want to try to, you can use the Linux-NTFS stuff from http://www.linux-ntfs.org/ (Haven't played with it in Ubuntu however)

You should be able to write to your FAT32 partition perfectly fine.

Yeah, I can write to my FAT32 partition fine.

I normally use Windows, but Windows screwed up, The only way I can boot this computer is using a Ubuntu Live CD. I have 18 GiB of video which I want to burn then delete, to make room for a fresh installation of Windows. That video is on a NTFS partition.

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Originally posted by Chris Boulton
Linux doesn't _really_ support writing to NTFS partitions. If you want to try to, you can use the Linux-NTFS stuff from http://www.linux-ntfs.org/ (Haven't played with it in Ubuntu however)

You should be able to write to your FAT32 partition perfectly fine

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the latest kernels 2.6.15 or was it 2.6.14 does have NTFS support. as far as i know of it just wont support 64bit yet

Well I'm using version 5.04, which is fairly old (April 2005). How do I find out the kernel version?

grep it? go to Terminal an do this, it'll tell u how to grep it..  man grep ( space between man an grep ) or this ( # uname -r )

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Originally posted by Animal
grep it? go to Terminal an do this, it'll tell u how to grep it..  man grep ( space between man an grep ) or this ( # uname -r )

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That's really complex.

What I want to do right now: get read/write NTFS access.

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Originally posted by rav0
That's really complex.

What I want to do right now: get read/write NTFS access.

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What's complex about it?

Also, it'd be a whole lot easier to just stick the drive into a friend's computer and copy/burn what you need from there if possible.