Hi Everyone,
I've never had a problem with Portable FF until now. I installed it on my portable HDD, and everytime I attempt to run FF, it gives me the read/write error. As far as I'm aware the directories are writable, but it doesn't work for me, if I copy the portable FF directory to a different location on the portable HDD it appears to work, although the plugins/addons I had installed are now NOT installed anymore.
I'm also unable to remove the portable FF directories from the HDD.
Any possible solutions to my dilemmas because I use it everyday I'm at uni because I don't like using their IE or Netscape.
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Is it NTFS?
Yes it is formatted NTFS, should it be FAT32?
If your hard drive is formatted with NTFS, and you try to use it with anything but admin privileges, you won't be able to write to it because Windows sees it as a local drive. You'll need to back your drive up (on your own machine, of course) format it to FAT32, and, if you want to use NTFS, use the convert tool (%windir%\system32\convert.exe), which can be called form the command line (it is a command-line app anyway) without specifying the path. Open a terminal and type:
convert [drive letter w/ colon] /FS:NTFS /V /NoSecurityThe /NoSecurity switch makes it so that Windows will not preserve permissions on the drive (such behavior with Mac and Linux is not guaranteed or even likely). FAT32 doesn't support permissions at all, so you'll always be able to access your files on a FAT32 partition. Remember, though, that FAT32 partitions can't hold files larger than 4GB.
Vintage!