Era, me and my computer thank you. I did what you said and I got it to be recognized via
sudo fdisk -l. so i installed gparted on the desktop, and reformatted it to ext3. Then it recognized the device. then I changed the permission rights with the link i am attaching. now i only have an unmounting problem which i have on the page under texasone.
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http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=5180974#post5180974
I am waiting for response there, but anyhelp from this site would be very helpful.
thx all.