nev young wrote:
James Bensley wrote:
Well if you really aren't sure then don't buy it, I find it very hard to believe you can't get an NTFS drive to work under Linux that was working under windows, not you personally but I mean in general, if it works in Windows it should work in Linux its just a case of finding out how to make it work. I would start by formatting it as NTFS in Linux then using it in Windows and not the other way around, I have never had a problem this way round?
You're missing the point. Linux doesn't recognise it at all. I can't format a drive if the system can't see it.
It may simply be that your Linux distro does not have NTFS support installed. have you checked this?
Unlike my older USB external drive that creates a device /dev/sdd1 on the desktop which I can then mount.
Not surprising because that was probably FAT rather than NTFS.
Cheers
ian