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I needed some data from my other harddrive in my laptop, my work harddrive, but the harddrive is NTFS formatted and this is something that again is not natively supported.

I Google’d and found that NTFS-3G offers the best NTFS support, both for read and write. However, I am not planning to do any writing to my work harddrive, since NTFS has always been an issue in Linux and one write might break the entire partition.

Looking at the NTFS-3G website, there was too many instructions for my taste, so I thought of the easiest way, just using features already available in Ubuntu.

Here is how to get it working….

1. Go to Add/Remove

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