So I'm new at linux and don't know what I'm doing

[Justin]

Jeremy Miller wrote:
> Do you know if the drive is formatted as FAT or NTFS? You might need
> to install the NTFS libraries.
>
> On 10/23/07, Justin <arethius at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> I have a dell precision m90 laptop and a 250gb freeagent external hdd.
>> I just reformatted and installed ubuntu 7.10 on the laptop.  I have all
>> my files and what not stored on the external.  When running live from
>> the disc, I could access the drive but now that it's installed, it says
>> the drive is unmountable.  Would I be better off just waiting until the
>> installfest and asking there(I want to set this up as a windows
>> xp/ubuntu dual boot) or is there some little tick box that I'm not seeing?
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it's formatted to ntfs.  Where do I get the libraries and how do I 
install them?
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