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<font size="+1">I Broke My Kubuntu <span class="moz-smiley-s2"><span>
:-( </span></span>. Yep, Windows XP (spit spit) is back in my
computer. But like Arnold says "I'll be back". Next time I'll do a
dual boot on my HP box. He (R2-D2) has a split personality anyhow so
he won't mind sharing with a penguin <span class="moz-smiley-s1"><span>
:-) </span></span>.<br>
<br>
I don't know what I did. Everything was going great except for one
persistent problem that kept after me. It seems that Ubuntu doesn't
like external USB drives that are formatted in NTFS. The new one (750
GB) that I bought gave me all kinds of problems. And, I think in the
end Ubuntu ATE it as when I tried to use it on Windows XP (spit spit) I
couldn't get some of the files to delete and I couldn't format it
either. Sooooo Best Buy got it back. From what research I did I found
that Linux isn't able to change the Owner or Preferences on FAT32 or
NTFS drives. I would put the correct settings in /etc/fstab and it
would work great, until I restarted the computer then it wouldn't
work. The problem is that each time (well, maybe not every time) that
the computer starts it would assign a different ID to the drive. One
time it would be called one thing and next time something else so
Ubuntu couldn't find it from the fstab settings. I guess the way
around that would be to format it to ext3 but I wanted to use the data
on my remaining Windows (spit spit) machine until I got fully converted
to Kubuntu. Oh well, the long and the short of it is I took Linux back
out (for now) and my wife is now convinced (as if she wasn't before)
that I am totally MAD. You should see my beautiful and usually
charming wife shake her head when she walks by my computer room and
sees Windows (spit spit) disk everywhere. It is actually funny.<br>
<br>
Another curious thing that happened, probably because I wasn't doing my
backups, using Simple Backup, correctly. My 160GB drive that Kubuntu
was on was 96% full and I had very few data files on it. Even Vista
(spit spit) doesn't use that much space so I must have been doing
something wrong. Who would have guessed that I could do something
wrong <span class="moz-smiley-s1"><span> :-) </span></span>.<br>
<br>
If anyone know how to get an external FAT32 or NTFS USB drive to work,
please let me know. I will probably start putting Kubuntu / Ubuntu
back in before to long. I may wait for the next version to get out in
about April. Don't know yet. In the mean time I'll be here.<br>
Thanks for the help<br>
Bob Jones<br>
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