<p>In order for Linux systems to recognize and mount a drive, it needs to be a format type that's known to the running kernel. You need to either format the drive as fat32 or install ntfs tools on your Linux system. Mkfs -t ntfs will not make a working partition for several versions of ntfs tools. </p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Oct 21, 2011 12:05 PM, "zeb" <<a href="mailto:n4zm@mindspring.com">n4zm@mindspring.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
All:<br>
I have a Seagate portable expansion drive that is not recognized by<br>
Slackware Linux 12.2 (or Windows 98 SE, XP, or 7). The drive is seen<br>
during Linux boot, but it cannot be mounted.<br>
The drive originally was formatted as NTFS. I formatted it as ext2<br>
and was able to mount it. I then formatted it as NTFS (using mkfs -t<br>
ntfs), and that's when the fun (or trouble) began. I wrote Seagate a<br>
week ago, but they have not replied. Their web site says they do not<br>
support Linux.<br>
Anybody have any thoughts as to how I can revive this paperweight?<br>
<br>
Thanks, and regards....Zeb<br>
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