external hd permissions?

hi guys first off i have to thanks all the guys at remote-exploit for backtrack it runs flawlessly on my eee pc :D But i just have one query my western digital drive doesn't let me write to it in backtrack but does in windows. i recently converted it to ntfs and this is why the permissions have changed. so i went about and changed them on my windows box this was fine but when i went to backtrack and was denied write access. also it wont let me change drive permissions in backtrack even though im root! here is a a screen shot of my attempts. this happens every time and it not just that specific file.

Thanks in advance Xirtam

sorry forgot to mention that a similar thing happens on the internal drive

you may have a look to ntfs-3g

cheers shaman it works fine now. but will i have to do this everytime i plug the hd in?

modify your /etc/fstab

/dev/sda2 /mnt/sda2 ntfs-3g auto,noatime,users,suid,dev,exec,locale= 0 0 # AutoUpdate

like that normally it loads auto

/dev/sda2 /mnt/sdg2 ntfs-3g auto,noatime,users,suid,dev,exec,locale= 0 0 # AutoUpdate <-- the one i inserted

/dev/sdh2 /mnt/sdh2 ntfs auto,noatime,users,suid,dev,exec,ro 0 0 # AutoUpdate <--the one backtrack made
it keeps mounting under a different name. carrys on like this and always wants to mount as Read-only (Ro):


/dev/sdh2 /mnt/sdh2 ntfs auto,noatime,users,suid,dev,exec,ro 0 0 # AutoUpdate
/dev/sdI2 /mnt/sdh2 ntfs auto,noatime,users,suid,dev,exec,ro 0 0 # AutoUpdate
/dev/sdJ2 /mnt/sdh2 ntfs auto,noatime,users,suid,dev,exec,ro 0 0 # AutoUpdate

so if i put mine in and remove the Ro ones it still doesnt mount with write permissions

maybe im doing something wrong
sorry to pester you :)

doesnt matter i got it working turns out i had just left out one of the options in the fstab file. Thanks for ur help shaman.

Xirtam