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Operating Systems Linux Ubuntu External Hard drive won't mount Post 302191053 by Methal on Thursday 1st of May 2008 11:11:18 AM

05-01-2008

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Originally Posted by Texasone

i have a Simple Tech hard drive that i use between two computers. it is formatted to ntfs. i have a dell desktop with Ubuntu 7.10 and Ubuntu 8.04 and Windows XP Home. and i have a laptop with Ubuntu 7.10 and Ubuntu 8.04. the laptop recognizes the hard drive on both 8.04 and 7.10 but my desktop only recognizes the external hard drive on windows. Ubuntu will not recognize it on my desktop. should i try to force mount it. if so, ill need instructions please. or should i try an application/program to recognize it.

I had the same problem not 3 days ago. My solution may not be one you'd be willing to do.

I booted from it into live fedora and formated the thing. Its now dual booting to fedora and PCLinuxOS.

windows would see it and use it (it was NTFS format after all) however even though they could see and recognize it, Ubunuto 8.04, and 7.10, and PCLinuxOS they wouldnt mount or format it.

but Fedora would, so thats what I did.

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