changing ownership of NTFS drive
I have a Seagate freeagent desk 1.5 TB USB drive
This drive was used to back up my windows XP computer before the XP operating system became beyond repair and I and changed over from dual boot XP / UBUNTU 11.10 to UBUNTU12.04 and the 2 USB drives would not mount at the same time. I changed back to UBUNTU 11.10.
I used the Seagate Manager to do the backups
I had a problem with the drive being read only I am now able to write to the folders but during the process all the existing files and folders became owned by ROOT and now Root will not allow me to take back ownership of the files and they have become read only so all my back ups can not be updated.
I tried both suggested codes
sudo chown -R $USER /media/FreeAgent
sudo chown -R douglas /media/FreeAgent
and
sudo chmod -R 777 /media/FreeAgent
neither of these codes take back ownership of the folders and files and changed the permission on the files to read only
Can anyone help
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