May I ask: Is it possible to write to Mounted Drives, or they read-only, please?

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grimerz

Is this Mac or PC?

Originally Posted by grimerz

May I ask: Is it possible to write to Mounted Drives, or they read-only, please?

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grimerz

What exactly do you mean by "Mounted Hard Drives"?

In general all hard drives read and write.

Sounds like Linux or Unix.

Yes but depending on how they are mounted. are you asking about DOS/Windows partitions, floppy, zip drive, ??????

using rw in the options field -o will mount for read/write
for a DOS partition in may look something like this
mount -t vfat -o user,rw,exec,umask=000 /dev/hda1 /mnt/dosdrive

which would allow all users read write.

If you are root, you have the POWER

In Mac, to mount is simply to access it and have it on the desktop (equiv to "my computer"

My apologies for the confusion.

I have 28 hard-drives on my computer; after the 25th, letter 'Z,' any additional HDs must be have volume mount points.' or so and I have 3 HDs which indeed are mounted. I can read from them, but cannot write directly to them, say from Pinnacle Movie Maker, for example. I can copy and paste to them however?

What I need to know please, is it at all possible to write to a 'Mounted HD.' I am using WinXP Pro.

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grimerz

:O 28??? are they 3GB ones or are you doing server stuff or something???

Mostly 40-60gb or though one is a 170gb. Believe me, when saving movie files from Pinnacle, one needs all the space that one can get.

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grimerz