Adrian0
May 2nd, 2011, 07:08 AM
Hi All, I'm an Ubuntu user but unskilled; can't find my way through an issue with the new distro.
My laptop is a STAMP, 1.6GHz, P4, RAM 1GHz, onboard Intel sound/video etc. There were two partitions, C:\ drive and D:\ drive. I had Ubuntu 10.10 and no other O/S installed.
I installed 11.04 Beta from a Live CD Alternate last week and have since upgraded a couple of times to what must now be the LTS. Lots of good stuff and it's why I'm a committed user. I have two problems:
In the install, I kept the two, almost equal partitions (each about 36GB) as well as the Swap of about 3.3GB. The previous format had been Ext4 and NTFS; I now reformatted and made them both Ext4.
The C:\ has of course all the system and apps, with the basic folder structure \HOME, etc. In trying to set up certain programmes to 'Save to' the D:\ - or indeed just trying to copy/move anything into it, I get: - "Error ... Access denied. Could not write to ... etc. OR ... etc does not exist"!
I've checked under the 'System/Administration/Users & Groups/ Users Settings/Group Settings. For Root, I've entered myself - who should have anyway had Administrator privileges. Also rebooted, but still no change.
What must I do to get use of my D:\ drive? Grateful for advice.
Adriano
My laptop is a STAMP, 1.6GHz, P4, RAM 1GHz, onboard Intel sound/video etc. There were two partitions, C:\ drive and D:\ drive. I had Ubuntu 10.10 and no other O/S installed.
I installed 11.04 Beta from a Live CD Alternate last week and have since upgraded a couple of times to what must now be the LTS. Lots of good stuff and it's why I'm a committed user. I have two problems:
In the install, I kept the two, almost equal partitions (each about 36GB) as well as the Swap of about 3.3GB. The previous format had been Ext4 and NTFS; I now reformatted and made them both Ext4.
The C:\ has of course all the system and apps, with the basic folder structure \HOME, etc. In trying to set up certain programmes to 'Save to' the D:\ - or indeed just trying to copy/move anything into it, I get: - "Error ... Access denied. Could not write to ... etc. OR ... etc does not exist"!
I've checked under the 'System/Administration/Users & Groups/ Users Settings/Group Settings. For Root, I've entered myself - who should have anyway had Administrator privileges. Also rebooted, but still no change.
What must I do to get use of my D:\ drive? Grateful for advice.
Adriano