Ian Thompson-Bell wrote:
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?
I have no problem mounting NTFS formatted disk drives using my older USB external drive case.
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.
It wasn't anything when I bought it just an empty case. The 250Gb drive currently in there is EXT3.
There is clearly something different between the two external drive cases.